111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321<\/p>\n
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While I’m at it, check out this wonderful anagram<\/a>: Richard Wallace, author of Jack the Ripper, Light Hearted Friend<\/em> (Gemini Press, 1996), suggested that Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky <\/em>is actually an anagram of Carroll’s confession to being Jack the Ripper.<\/p>\n In a 1996 letter column of Harpers<\/em>, Guy Jacobson and Francis Heaney wrote: “The first paragraph of [Wallace’s] article contains a grisly confession.” Wallace’s first sentence was:<\/p>\n 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which turned out to say, with the letters rearranged:<\/p>\n 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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 * * * 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 … Continue reading