Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Jun 30, 2004 10:55:54 GMT -5
(This isn't actually coded. I just needed a catchy title.)
I've been wondering a few things about the Sebald code:
1. Have there been any codes like it in the real world?
2. In written messages, code is denoted by the word ring, often resulting in bell metaphors. Could the noun ring, as in jewelry, be used to start and end Sebalded messages?
As they say on essay prompts, discuss.
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Post by SnicketFires on Jun 30, 2004 16:26:16 GMT -5
I don't know about the jewelry "ring", but a few months ago, I tried the Sebald code on a book and a poem. I did Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe. I think the results of "The Bells" can be found in my thread about the poem...
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Post by negativenine on Jul 1, 2004 14:05:32 GMT -5
Hrmm.... good point. But I think, if emphasized enough, a (finger) ring could do the trick, if someone were being sneaky...
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Jul 1, 2004 15:08:38 GMT -5
Another way to transmit the code in spoken messages could be striking a metal ring against something else metallic, to make a bell-like sound. This would be useful because of the inherent difficulties of carrying bells in your pockets.
In the meantime I really must find my Ramona books, which have some odd connections to VFD.
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Jul 1, 2004 19:08:29 GMT -5
Please, please don't make such page-distendingly long strings of letters! Are you trying to be annoying? Don't! Oh for the powers of a moderator!
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Jul 1, 2004 19:58:02 GMT -5
this person has been doing this in other threads too. just another annoying newbie.
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Post by Ennui on Jul 2, 2004 1:43:10 GMT -5
That was the most maddening piece of spam I've seen for some time...jumpwhatever just completely mangled an interesting discussion.
So...does the bad side of the schism also use the Sebald Code?
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Jul 2, 2004 9:18:35 GMT -5
Olivia, I think, said that both sides use the same codes as well as the same disguises, so probably yes. We must look out for cases of Olaf or his henchmen using a bell. Hey, Hooky could make the ring sound with his hooks, if he knows the code.
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Jul 2, 2004 9:51:42 GMT -5
I think the bad side uses the Sebald Code but I dont think the troupe knows it. Cauze I dont even think they know what V.F.D. means.
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Jul 2, 2004 13:39:04 GMT -5
It was Colette who didn't know what VFD meant, but she was in fact a carnival freak, never part of VFD. I'm not sure if the troop members we met at the beginning were VFDers, but they could have been.
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Post by SnicketFires on Jul 4, 2004 1:01:51 GMT -5
I think the bad side uses the Sebald Code but I dont think the troupe knows it. Cauze I dont even think they know what V.F.D. means. But the Powder Twins have used the flower-arranging code. In the Rare Edition notes.
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Post by Sora on Jul 4, 2004 16:28:03 GMT -5
Look, I think the hook handed man is now the only assistant of Olaf's that know what any of the codes mean. He is an origanal assistant, and I don't think Olaf will be telling the recently acquired ones about V.F.D. very soon.
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Post by sugarbowl on Jul 12, 2004 18:01:05 GMT -5
Sora and daemon Kairi is right.
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Post by Sora on Jul 16, 2004 19:39:05 GMT -5
Thank you. But you just can call me Sora or Nathan.
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