History Unlocking History: Analyzing Texts by ELS

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Equidistant letter spacing (ELS) techniques can be applied to various texts to uncover historical keywords and phrases, suggesting that significant events can be encoded within literature. This method, similar to the Bible Code, allows for the extraction of seemingly random terms related to events like Watergate or 9/11 from works such as Stephen King's "It" or Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities." Proponents argue that with the right software, users can analyze texts like "Moby Dick" to find coincidental phrases that align with historical occurrences. The discussion raises questions about the validity and implications of such findings, highlighting the potential for subjective interpretation in identifying meaningful patterns within literature.
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Isn't it true that you can find all sorts of historical accounts of events by keywords that were taken by equidistant letter spacings of almost any text? For example: watergate, who is he?, president, but he will be kicked out. Ya know, things like that, found by equidistant letter spacings that form a matrix and then it's like a word find game. You should be able to find things like this which describe almost all the events in history by someone who is willing to believe that those keywords actually describe specific events in history. What if you take Stephen King's It, and analyzed it by the same methods of the bible code, you're bound to find coincidences like (terrorist attack, twin towers, they both fall) stuff like that right? Has anyone tried to show this?
 
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I think someone found some doomsday interpretations in "A Tale of Two Cities". Not sure why this is in S&D though...
 
I've heard that there is software you can download to do this with various texts (Moby Dick is a favorite), but I've never actually looked for any.
 
Historian seeks recognition for first English king https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d07w50e15o Somewhere I have a list of Anglo-Saxon, Wessex and English kings. Well there is nothing new there. Parts of Britain experienced tribal rivalries/conflicts as well as invasions by the Romans, Vikings/Norsemen, Angles, Saxons and Jutes, then Normans, and various monarchs/emperors declared war on other monarchs/emperors. Seems that behavior has not ceased.

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