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Post by Jenny on Jun 29, 2019 6:12:54 GMT -5
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Post by heidini on Jun 29, 2019 11:42:57 GMT -5
This email came in today and I am posting it here with permission from the writer. How do you help someone who says they don’t need help, when you know they do? f
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Dear Forrest,
I want to thank you for just being you. I am a single mom of 5 kids and I raised all my kids the hard way pay check to pay check. I never had money to send my kids to the activities that kids do baseball soccer football cheerleading that kind of stuff that you got to pay a lot of money for. So anyway I instead found ways to to keep my kids entertained. And that was bottle digging and the dig is easy but doing the research of a town to find where a privy to dig up the privy to find a bottles doing the history was the thrill for me and it taught my kids a lot of stuff about Maps and history of the town they lived in. I took them in the woods to teach them to mushroom hunt for morels. We all went camping fishing in our little town. I would maybe have 5 bucks for gas and we would go drive around Missouri and look for creeks to walk in to look for arrowheads or get fish put them in our homemade fish tank, And so this is how you help me my kids all grew up they are all out on their own all 5 and they are all doing good with life. No drugs no serious drinking you know they’re just normal kids all five. I don’t know how I got so lucky cuz some moms out there are dealing with having to raise their grandbaby cuz the kids are on drugs, sad. Well after all kids left I was alone I spent my whole life taking care of my kids and when the last one left I felt so alone. I was like making plans to just weather away and die because I had no kids to take care of anymore. And then you came along and your story. Well I am still a little too poor to afford your book but one day I will be able to and I’ll get to read your book I’m excited about that one day. Well I got to see a lot of it. Your book off of you tube…And your treasure hunt got me back into looking up history learning about the Indians and the brown trout how beautiful Yellowstone is I don’t get to see it in person but I do get to see it through other people’s cameras the GoPros whatever they use to film stuff. It got me out of feeling sorry for myself and getting back to living. And what you said about you can shut one door and open other, So once again I am living and that is why I felt the need to write you and thank you. I do love the Thrill of the chase I didn’t get to read your book but just the thrill of the chase of looking up history in finding something that’s never been found. I do know about your poem that you have no x letter in your poem and. X marks the spot..That is really neat. Your kewl. Take care and thanks for being you.
Thunderose
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Post by heidini on Jun 29, 2019 11:44:54 GMT -5
Thunderose- thunderous? Warning?
Capital “MAP”
What else is there?
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Post by Jenny on Jun 29, 2019 12:39:16 GMT -5
One thing that there isn't is line breaks and such....
We could make note that the T in 'Thrill of the chase' is capped, while the c isn't...
I sort of have to wonder if Forrest didn't write this himself..... the name is suspicious as it too seems like it should have a 'break', like the whole paragraph, but doesn't-- instead of Thunder Rose it runs to be Thunderose. From what I know of Forrest is he likes those subtleties....
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Post by locolobo on Jun 29, 2019 14:34:50 GMT -5
One thing that there isn't is line breaks and such.... We could make note that the T in 'Thrill of the chase' is capped, while the c isn't... I sort of have to wonder if Forrest didn't write this himself..... the name is suspicious as it too seems like it should have a 'break', like the whole paragraph, but doesn't-- instead of Thunder Rose it runs to be Thunderose. From what I know of Forrest is he likes those subtleties.... I agree with you Jenny and I’m not dissing Forrest, nor Miz Thunderose, in any way.iiii
But, when I use Google Translate and input ‘Thunderose’ in Engish, in Spanish it translates to…..Trueno…..True(?), no!
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Post by heidini on Jun 29, 2019 19:18:27 GMT -5
-OSE WORD ORIGIN a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, meaning “full of,” “abounding in,” “given to,” “like”:
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Post by heidini on Jun 29, 2019 19:19:22 GMT -5
One thing that there isn't is line breaks and such.... We could make note that the T in 'Thrill of the chase' is capped, while the c isn't... I sort of have to wonder if Forrest didn't write this himself..... the name is suspicious as it too seems like it should have a 'break', like the whole paragraph, but doesn't-- instead of Thunder Rose it runs to be Thunderose. From what I know of Forrest is he likes those subtleties.... I agree with you Jenny and I’m not dissing Forrest, nor Miz Thunderose, in any way.iiii
But, when I use Google Translate and input ‘Thunderose’ in Engish, in Spanish it translates to…..Trueno…..True(?), no!
True! No? Lol. I like it.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jun 29, 2019 19:45:30 GMT -5
Hi Loco: as I cross-posted over on Dal's, just the word "thunder" is "trueno" in Spanish; Google Translate isn't doing anything with the trailing -ose. You'll get the same result if you type in "Thunderthighs". I also like another Mark In Taos' observation of the anagram/Spoonerism: Thunderose --> Under Those. There are only four commas in the letter, three of which are used incorrectly (we know how Forrest loves his commas -- NOT!) On the whole, the letter appears to be a Forrest invention. So what's the takeaway message?
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Post by locolobo on Jun 30, 2019 13:33:29 GMT -5
Hi Loco: as I cross-posted over on Dal's, just the word "thunder" is "trueno" in Spanish; Google Translate isn't doing anything with the trailing -ose. You'll get the same result if you type in "Thunderthighs". I also like another Mark In Taos' observation of the anagram/Spoonerism: Thunderose --> Under Those. There are only four commas in the letter, three of which are used incorrectly (we know how Forrest loves his commas -- NOT!) On the whole, the letter appears to be a Forrest invention. So what's the takeaway message? Hi Zapster….it was amusing…that is why I posted it. For me, it is just as amusing as those who ponder the numbers Fenn uses/used.
And of course, it is obvious what Google did, ignoring the trailing -ose.
I’m glad you recognized that, otherwise some might think that Forrest was attempting to use a red herring….and most searchers know that he has no need to use red herrings (although there are some geniuses who can’t accept that, because they can’t admit that their interpretations may be incorrect).
Thanks for replying, nice reading your thoughts again…..loco
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 14:01:50 GMT -5
Let's see.
The first and last letters of the two sentences in Forrest's introduction anagram to THOR.
Now look at the somewhat random-appearing image:
ROse Tea Hands
>>> THOR
Thor is the god of thunder and lightning.
THUNDEROSE anagrams to THOR NEED US, or perhaps, THOR NEEDS U.
The second of Forrest's sentences alludes to this person needing help.
This all seems interrelated but I have no sense of what this is for at the moment.
(I do agree with Jenny's suspicion that this was fabricated by Forrest, along the lines of the fake email from the "blind man.")
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2019 19:52:44 GMT -5
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Post by heidini on Jun 30, 2019 19:58:19 GMT -5
Morels anybody? Morals? Right thing to do?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 6:24:41 GMT -5
After sleeping on it, I think I have found a way to make something of this scrapbook. For starters, go back here: mysteriouswritings.proboards.com/thread/3127/proposed-solution-first-clueIn particular, pay attention to : ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you go back to the preface of the book, you will read about Forrest's dear friend, Eric Sloane. His real name was Everard Hinrichs. AS I HAVE GONE ALONE IN THERE I CAN KEEP MY SECRET WHERE AND HINT OF RICHES NEW AND OLD
THE END IS EVER DRAWING NIGH
____________________________________________________________________________________________________ In short, I argued that the first step in decoding the poem was learning this technique of gathering end letters from adjacent words.
Now to Scrapbook 22.
As I posted earlier, the end letters of Forrest's two sentences yield THOR. (There is indeed a reference to Thor in the book.)
I think that THOR flows from:
The Hint Of Riches
In a double-barreled kind of way, this is telling us that, to get off the dime, we need to go back to the beginning and pay attention to this leadoff hint.
At this point this all has the feel of a long shot, so it is only natural to seek out a confirmer.
The other half of Hinrichs is Everard.
Does it show up anywhere, hidden in the same way?
It does.
Notice that the letter has several 5s, calling attention to them. Switch out 5 with five.
...single mom of five kids and raised all my kids the hard...
While the letters are a little stretched out, remarkably, they are in the correct order.
This brings us to the final punch line:
THUNDER ROSE anagrams to
THOR: USE END! (My punctuation obviously).
Not exactly hitting us over the head with a hammer, but a gentle mid-summer clue designed to get us unstuck, perhaps.
Happy July!
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Post by kk on Jul 1, 2019 8:25:44 GMT -5
In part, I see a connection to Salinger. So perhaps someone may have "caught" something and be "on the nose."
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Post by npsbuilder on Jul 1, 2019 17:51:42 GMT -5
I changed Thunderose to Thunder Road since you guys are thinking that ff may have written this and landed on The Ballad of Thunder Road that gave me a date and place to work with. 1 April 1954 - Just so happens it's the date of the founding of the Air Force Academy. Kingston Pike TN - this gave me a map I found interesting particularly SHEWING in the Title description www.loc.gov/resource/g3964k.cw0427000/
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