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our resident Latin scholar
While we're waiting for a Latin scholar to show up, the Latin looks more or less legitimate to me. I might like to see a periphrastic esse in there somewhere, but it may have been common to leave that out. And who am I to argue with the redoubtable Joseph Sobran (whoever he was)?
But, as Rubrick pointed out, it's not always difficult to pop an anagram out of almost anything. I think someone once used a technique espoused by some purveyor of encoded Biblical prophecies to prove that:
A) Moby Dick was equally prophetic, and
2) The aformetioned purveyor was proven by the very same Bible to be an utter fraud.
Þ) Or, as the three bats used to say, "Give us the answers you want and we'll come up with the questions to get them for you."
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In reply to:
The cipher craze began with a fiery American congressman and utopian reformer named Ignatius Donnelly, who in 1888 published a thousand-page tome called The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays. Donnelly also credited Bacon with the so-called works of Marlowe, Montaigne, and many others--780 plays in all.
This must be the same Ignatius Donnelly who came up with the idea that Plato's Atlantis really existed in the Atlantic and was the site of a super advanced civilisation, refugees from which founded all other ancient civilisations.
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the same Ignatius Donnelly who came up with the idea that Plato's Atlantis…
And that the Dialogues were written by Francis Bacon?
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