This ongoing enigma involves cryptic references to Martin Luther and Mao and a secret society and a bank deposit box and multi-lingual wordplay and obscure historical events and smiley faces and lord knows what else. Rumor has it that a treasure awaits anyone who can solve the puzzle. If you're a newbie, go here, then visit Bryan Hance's web site here. (You'll also want to read this article.)The newest mystery ad (published Dec 6; many others have appeared on May 1) is here. Sample line: "Amusing how the Scum are facilitating their own annihilation," which may refer to the United Nations, and which serves as a pretty good summary of the Bush administration's implosion. I wonder if Thomas Pynchon has a hand in all this?
I'm writing a screenplay (everyone in my town writes screenplays; it's what we do) based, in part, on this mystery. At some point in 2007, the script should be decorating the finest round files in Hollywood. Your only hope of finding the solution is to make sure that this script gets produced -- so when I give the signal, write to all the studio heads.
2 comments:
Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 changed us all, but I couldn't struggle through Gravity's Rainbow or Vineland.
As for the Mayday Mystery, real madness (as opposed to novelistic or cinematic) just isn't all that interesting.
Is the May Day mystery the work of a schizy lawyer? Or is there really a secretive group called the Orphanage, and is there method to the madness?
I suppose the first theory is the more likely. But I must confess a weakness for the more romantic notion.
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