JF Ptak Science Books Post 272
"The lunatic , the lover and the poet,
are of imagination all compact..."
Midsummer-Night's Dream act v sc 1
"Great ideas sure to madness near allied
and thin partitions do their bounds divide"
Dyden, Absolom and Achtiophel, part i, line 163.
I am pretty sure that O. Gordon Pickett, the very dedicated and serious author of this work, may well have been the only person to put the question forward of "why is England in the Queen's Chamber of [sic] Pyramid?" Isn't the ability to ask an uncommon question one of the sources of innovation and genius? Mr. Pickett, of Los Angeles (of course (?)), tried mightily in this 1928 publication to make his case for predetermination of the Anglo Saxon race by assembling and interpreting lost angles (sorry), implied geometry, found numbers, ratios, perspectives, and the like, endlessly, to find the outline of the England in the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. Almost all of this was invisible, a kind of outsider-logic-x-ray brought to bear on pyramid architecture--and when the picture clears, what the x-ray reveals,somehow and incredibly, is England. And Christ. And Pi. And although he was dedicated, and insightful, and capable of long sitting time, he probably was not a genius as we would recognize today, testing perhaps what Charles Lamb called the "radical sanity of genius" ("Sanity of True Genius" in Last Essays of Ella). Sometimes, having the ability to ask an unrecognized and first-time question doesn't mean that the there is an ability to discern a place for the thing in a shining logical kingdom. I do appreciate though that Mr. Pickett was a considered and discerning thinker, though to what non-personal end it all came to, I don't know.
But Mr. Pickett did evidently assemble ALLOT of data and drawings and plans and renderings of the pyramids in the course of looking for the secret strings which would alter the known into the secret and unknown.
I think what is most revealing about the way that he is going with his hard-thunk hard data is particularly revealing, and may also be, in their own way, some of the most uncommonly-titled visual displays of "quantitative" data that I've encountered: "The Wonderful Wall of Joints, Ascending Passage, North, Crucifixion and Resurrection", "(Pyramid) Passages and Planetary Rotation", "Birth of Jesus at Entrance" and "Some Pyramid Pi Values" are all unexpected constructions. Well, hard work does not necessarily make for good thinking, and though Mr. Pickett did allot of thinking on this...
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