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Post by edgewalker on Jun 20, 2020 7:32:08 GMT -5
Does anyone else wonder why Forrest took such care to ensure his autobiography would one day be read? Doesn't it seem like we know everything about Forrest? Why take up a significant part of the chest with this? Why place it in bells and hide them all over?
One day he wants his full story to come out IMO.
I think the autobiography may be the most valuable item in the chest. His reference to it being an unauthorized autobiography leads me to speculate. Is he revealing old secrets in it relating to his time in the airforce? Did he wait until 2010 because a statute of limitations was met regarding keeping the revelations?
Perhaps Forrest has only been an asterisk in a story never written, until now that is.
It makes me wonder about the Thrill of the Chase. Perhaps we think we have been chasing treasure when the whole time Forrest has created an army of searchers dedicated to ensuring his story finally gets out.
He could have just published it I suppose without the treasure hunt. Perhaps he was hoping it wouldn't come out while he was alive and he just never expected to live this long. Perhaps he thought the treasure hunt would amplify what he says in there.
Perhaps it is as simple as he says, that he thought one day when it was found the finder may want to know something about the person who hid it. I don't think so though. He hid it in the bells too. Seems he is ensuring some day what he has to say is read.
Curious what other searchers think.
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Post by goldilocks on Jun 20, 2020 7:48:55 GMT -5
Q. Will the finder of your chest have permission to publish your 20,000 word official autobiography? A. “I don’t want my autobiography published because it has not been edited and I want to change some things in it.” What and why would he want to change some things in it after all the effort he put into writing it, shrinking it and stuffing it in the chest? This is another interesting quote. Both can be found here: thefenndiagrams.com/q-a-with-fenn/first-round/Q. Will the subtle clues in the book be explained somewhere, sometime? (Maybe you have a book to be published once the chest is found?) A. “The hints in The Thrill of the Chase text will not be made public because they would say more than I want to reveal. Discovering which hints to use is part of the mystery.” I thought it was up to the finder what is revealed??? P.S. I really need to get a life...  I'm on my laptop researching now more than ever! |
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Post by dean on Jun 20, 2020 8:35:45 GMT -5
Some of these things really don't add up. When were these statements made, do we know?
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Post by astree on Jun 20, 2020 8:46:48 GMT -5
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I don’t have any idea what the autobiography says, but I’m pretty sure there’s information in the poem that gives some Personal information. Maybe the poem information was a teaser or introduction to Wertz in the biography, I don’t know.
Thank you for the link and quotes, Goldie locks. At the link, was not able to determine Any background for the quotes. For example, did Forest make an arrangement to give those quotes exclusively to fienndiagrams?
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Post by sangre on Jun 20, 2020 8:50:15 GMT -5
Imagine what he just said: “the who” and “the where”
Now imagine that every one is going to have a different interpretation of “the who” and “the where”
Now imagine that’s the way it’s going to be for all of eternity
And that’s the take home message
Life is your game. You control of “the who” and “the where.” You think of everything. And there is a story behind it all and it’s significant. And the reason why the spot is so special to you is in your autobiography but you remove it for personal reasons. You tell no one.
the finder will continue to be just a figment of our imagination for all of eternity.
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Post by goldilocks on Jun 20, 2020 9:10:20 GMT -5
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Post by zaphod73491 on Jun 20, 2020 14:36:26 GMT -5
Hi Goldilocks/All: the source of that quote is from Barbara's The Fenn Diagrams. These started at least as early as May 2013. The following Q&A's were well prior to December 2017, but I have not been able to find the date(s):
Q1a: "Will the finder of your chest have permission to publish your 20,000 word official autobiography?"
A1a: "I don't want my autobiography published because it has not been edited and I want to change some things in it."
Q1b: "Will the subtle clues in the book be explained somewhere, sometime? (Maybe you have a book to be published once the chest is found?)"
A1b: "The hints in The Thrill of the Chase text will not be made public because they would say more than I want to reveal. Discovering which hints to use is part of the mystery."
Q2a: "Is it true that Douglas Preston was going to write a book about the Chase for you back when you got sick?"
A2a: "I asked Doug and three others to write the book and showed them the treasure chest. For various reasons none wanted to undertake it. The reason I didn't want to write it is because I thought I would not be alive at the end of the book."
Q2b: "And, if so, was it going to be in a fiction (novel) or non-fiction (memoir) style?"
A2b: "I envisioned I (sic) to be a book of fiction but the treasure part would be real."
Q3: "I've always wondered what a coat bracelet is. Would you describe it, or be willing to share a photo of the dragon bracelet in your TC?"
A3: "A coat bracelet is one that is worn over a sleeve in cold weather. Doesn't seem to (sic) plausible but that is what it is."
Q4: "When you wrote the poem, did you start with the first clue or the ninth?"
A4: "I knew all along where I wanted to hide the treasure so I didn't need a map or any information to write the poem. Everything was in my head. It took me a while to get the wording exactly how I wanted it. Counting the clues and hiding the chest came later. It is not likely that anyone will find it without following the clues, at least in their mind."
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Post by dean on Jun 20, 2020 15:13:07 GMT -5
"I don't want my autobiography published because it has not been edited and I want to change some things in it." - then why put it in there, especially unedited? he must have wanted someone to read it (at least one person). The ones in the virtually unfindable bell things seem more symbolic, are they edited versions?
"The hints in The Thrill of the Chase text will not be made public because they would say more than I want to reveal. Discovering which hints to use is part of the mystery. - That's a definitive statement, so it's not up to the finder?
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Post by edgewalker on Jun 20, 2020 15:30:25 GMT -5
"I don't want my autobiography published because it has not been edited and I want to change some things in it." - then why put it in there, especially unedited? he must have wanted someone to read it (at least one person). The ones in the virtually unfindable bell things seem more symbolic, are they edited versions? "The hints in The Thrill of the Chase text will not be made public because they would say more than I want to reveal. Discovering which hints to use is part of the mystery. - That's a definitive statement, so it's not up to the finder? There are things in my autobiography I would like to change too. |
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