111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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While I’m at it, check out this wonderful anagram: Richard Wallace, author of Jack the Ripper, Light Hearted Friend (Gemini Press, 1996), suggested that Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky is actually an anagram of Carroll’s confession to being Jack the Ripper.
In a 1996 letter column of Harpers, Guy Jacobson and Francis Heaney wrote: “The first paragraph of [Wallace’s] article contains a grisly confession.” Wallace’s first sentence was:
This is my story of Jack the Ripper, the man behind Britain’s worst unsolved murders. It is a story that points to the unlikeliest of suspects: a man who wrote children’s stories. That man is Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of such beloved books as Alice in Wonderland.
Which turned out to say, with the letters rearranged:
The truth is this: I, Richard Wallace, stabbed and killed a muted Nicole Brown in cold blood, severing her throat with my trusty shiv’s strokes. I set up Orenthal James Simpson, who is utterly innocent of this murder. P.S. I also wrote Shakespeare’s sonnets, and a lot of Francis Bacon’s works too.
Nice one!
Thank goodness OJ can finally rest now that the true killer has been found. I knew something was up with that Carroll fellow — he got too much pleasure from photographing young children to be deemed “normal,” and now it all makes sense.
Plus, I knew there was something up with all that jabberwocky and those other made-up words.
well, this is sort of… oddly timed.
over the last week or so, I purchased the first two volumes of the Batman animated series, and last night, I just happened to watch a few episodes featuring the Mat Hatter.
I decree this is proof of the Divine Will of God, and that the Alice novels shall be deemed as sacred tomes, as shall all derivitive works, including, but not limited to, Batman: TAS, American McGee’s Alice, and the character Alice from the Honeymooners.
It works for the Neo-cons, so it works for me.
I wonder if I can arrange coincidences to prove the divine nature of some radical feminist research and lit, just to get under conservitives’ skins
Finally! An end to the speculation about the Simpson trial.
Really, that is an awesome palindrome.
People? That is an anagram, not a palindrome. A palindrome is when a word or phrase spells the same thing backwards (all letters reversed) as it does forwards.
Silly me. You labeled it as an anagram & I forgot.
Balls, I meant anagram.