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===Locations===
 
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*24.56 N., 81.78W. - These coordinates lead to 1200 4th St., Key West, FL. The nearest buildings are a [https://www.pakmail.com/stores/pak-mail-key-west PakMail] and U-Haul rental shop. This location is 400-600 feet from the U.S. Customs Services office in Key West. [https://www.google.com/maps/place/24%C2%B033'36.0%22N+81%C2%B046'48.0%22W/@24.56,-81.7810943,18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d24.56!4d-81.78 Google Maps]
 
*24.56 N., 81.78W. - These coordinates lead to 1200 4th St., Key West, FL. The nearest buildings are a [https://www.pakmail.com/stores/pak-mail-key-west PakMail] and U-Haul rental shop. This location is 400-600 feet from the U.S. Customs Services office in Key West. [https://www.google.com/maps/place/24%C2%B033'36.0%22N+81%C2%B046'48.0%22W/@24.56,-81.7810943,18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d24.56!4d-81.78 Google Maps]
*Swiss Clearing Number 8800, Postal Account 90-3253-1 - The clearing number and account number belong to Liechtensteinische Landesbank, in Liechtenstein. This bank offers private banking services. [https://www.llb.li/en/imprint LLB Website]
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*Swiss Clearing Number 8800, Postal Account 90-3253-1 - The clearing number and account number belong to Liechtensteinische Landesbank, in Vaduz, [[Liechtenstein]]. This bank offers private banking services. [https://www.llb.li/en/imprint LLB Website]
*47.139 N., 9.521 E -  
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*47.139 N., 9.521 E - These coordinates lead to Aeulestrasse 48 in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. A house owned by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP_Bank_AG VP Bank AG] once stood here, but the building and a neighboring house were demolished in early 2017 and the property transferred to the municipality of Vaduz. [https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:K3AUZCD6Qq0J:https://www.vpbank.ch/data/docs/en_CH/4526/Energiebericht-2014-VP-Bank-Liechtenstein-de.pdf%3Fv%3D1.0+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari#7 VP Bank 2016 Energy Report]
  
  

Revision as of 15:24, 22 August 2017

12/5/07 Ad
Publication Date December 5, 2007
Ad Source MM Site
Smiley Type Smiley with 4 hairs, Irregular Smiley

Ad Transcript

SR/CL: Leitmotiv: "On his way to be murdered in the Senate, Julius Caesar passed on the street the soothsayer who had warned him to beware the Ides of March. Caesar smugly said, 'Soothsayer, the Ides have come and I am excellent.' The man replied, 'The day is not over.' "

30: 5/1/82, 2nd

50: 3/10/93, 1st

60: 6/22/05, 3rd

180: 5/1/99, 2nd

6960: 1/17/01, 3rd

7000: 5/1/93, 1st

7020:12/6/95, 3rd

7030: 5/1/89, 2nd


10: Fermi's Fear

20: Chemnitz

40: Winthrop

90: Alekhine

130: Cranmer

140: Mistah Kurtz

6920: Endecott

צח‎נ‎

7040

Естъ в напевах твоих сокровеннъӏх

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Роковая о гибели вестъ.

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Естъ проклятъе заветов священнъӏх,

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Порутание счастия естъ.

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--Blok

⏟ Observe the whore outside the store.

Babylon we mean here—the whore

(Not some hooker by the seashore).

--J. Hollander, ISBN 0-300-08832-9

}24.56 N., 81.78 W.

Willie Stark's Investigator: "Sure, I'll dig but they say he's an honest judge. Maybe there isn't anything." Willie Stark: "When I was a little boy they sent me to a Presbyterian Sunday School back in the days when they still had some theology. I learned one thing and it has served me well. Man passes from the stink of the diaper to the stench of the shroud. There is always something."—R.P. Warren, All The King's Men, ISBN-13: 978-0156004800}}#Lorenzo Dow has been directly instructed by THE ORPHANAGE to contact Athanasius @ Swiss Clearing Number 8800, Postal Account 90-3253-1. The Asylum Choir will supply three vats of Full Doctrine via 47.139 N., 9.521 E; initiate contact solely in Schwizertitsch as the Hirelings expect only Standardsprache from ADW 5/1/89,4th—as with the Local Yokel Pig Pond-scum, they know only what they can see; Orate pro nobis}++!(#).

Ad Artwork

Lynx Under Sail Commencement Bay

The ship at the center of the ad is a schooner, which bears a close resemblance to the Lynx. The Lynx is a 2001 reproduction of a ship of the same name that sailed during the War of 1812. Displacing 114 tons, the Lynx is 76 feet in length over all, with a sparred length of 122 feet, a 23-foot beam and a draft of 9 feet. She is fitted with period ordnance and flies pennants and flags from the 1812 era.

Ad Image

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Leitmotiv

Ad Interpretation

Locations

  • 24.56 N., 81.78W. - These coordinates lead to 1200 4th St., Key West, FL. The nearest buildings are a PakMail and U-Haul rental shop. This location is 400-600 feet from the U.S. Customs Services office in Key West. Google Maps
  • Swiss Clearing Number 8800, Postal Account 90-3253-1 - The clearing number and account number belong to Liechtensteinische Landesbank, in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. This bank offers private banking services. LLB Website
  • 47.139 N., 9.521 E - These coordinates lead to Aeulestrasse 48 in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. A house owned by VP Bank AG once stood here, but the building and a neighboring house were demolished in early 2017 and the property transferred to the municipality of Vaduz. VP Bank 2016 Energy Report


Translations

  • צח‎נ‎ is Hebrew for Noach/Noah
  • The Cyrillic poem is a passage from Russian poet Aleksandr Blok's "To The Muse." Translation
In your hidden memories 
There are fatal tidings of doom... 
A curse on sacred traditions, 
A desecration of happiness;
  • Schwizertitsch
  • Standardsprache


Literary References

  • "Observe the whore outside the store" is a passage drawn from "Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse" by John Hollander. The first line demonstrates iambic meter (unstressed syllable + stressed syllable), but the second line uses trochaic meter (stressed + unstressed) to single out the whore and identify her as the Whore of Babylon from Revelation 17.
  • Willie Stark

Historic References

  • Fermi's Fear
  • Chemnitz
  • Winthrop
  • Alekhine
  • Cranmer
  • Endecott