image 1

[johann]

Voltaire--
You mention something at the 11:00 position of a circle.  There are 11 moons in the pic.

[drewsmith]

drewsmith: Nice observation on the claws - I never looked closely at them before. Upside down, they could be a "93."

Ummmm, I wasn't talking about the claws.  I was talking about what looks like a word in the very middle of the part of the image I've snipped.  Just below the left claw, to the left of the right claw.  (I realize that I'm being oblique, but I don't want to necessarily prejudice anyone else's interpretation.)

Drew

[forest_blight]

Oh, I see. I can't make out a word, but that doesn't mean there isn't one there.

But I do find it curious that one of the claws looks normal and the other one seems to form a loop.

[fox]

Drew, dont know if this is what u r looking for but.... I can almost see the word COIT from top to bottom.

[forest_blight]

My scale is a little off, but wow... this might be a match.

[drewsmith]

Drew, dont know if this is what u r looking for but.... I can almost see the word COIT from top to bottom.

Yup!  (although I thought it ran left to right...)

Drew

[drewsmith]

I hate to post this here instead of on the verse thread but I have a feeling "near ace is high" is referring to 11th ave which runs on either side of GGP.  I am sure there was discussion of this in the correct thread.  It seems "Sounds from the sky" with "near ace is high" is just a clever way to get people headed in the wrong direction.  I mean who isn't going to start thinking about airplanes?

I don't think I ever thought of it as relating to airplanes until someone else here suggested that idea.  "Ace is high" reminded me primarily of poker, and secondarily of the number "1".  Unless the context is already piloting, I wouldn't think of the word "ace" as referring to a pilot.  Unless there's an actual statue or painting of a pilot, or a famous pilot involved in the geography, I still think that it's a stretch to construe "ace" as having anything to do with the flying variety.

Drew

[fox]

  I am sure the table has drove those of you close to this cask crazy.

nobody liked my firehose theory?  oh well 

[Voltaire]

The table and the mountains/water ARE driving me crazy.  I'm back from my trip and will have more pictures posted soon, but I freely admit I have no plausible explanation for the following things:

1.  the table
2.  the weird shapes in the mountans
3.  the "object of Twain's attention," specifically
4.  the weird glyphs in the bottom 1/3 of the woman's tabard.

Other than that, I think I can explain everything with the solution I've given.

[fox]

still think table is a firehose

[bclews]

While I can see the firehose nozzle, it immediately reminded me of a metal Chinese garden lantern.  I've looked for an image of the ones that I've seen, but I can't find the exact one.  I'd look for a Chinese garden in the area.

Similar to this, but less ornate and made of metal --

http://www.bonsaiinformation.com/Potsfo ... rn%201.jpg

[Voltaire]

There really aren't any Chinese gardens in the area now, I'm afraid.  There are quite a few gardens of different types, but none with lamps or stands or whatever that looked like this table.  I had a photocopy of the image with me while I was on Telegraph Hill, and I couldn't find anything like it despite searching for it specifically.  A firehose would be a great match, but I'd have to see one that came from the era before I signed on to that theory.

[fox]

I believe it is just another reference to Ellie Coit which confirms Coit Tower.  Although, if that were the case, we may need another "outline" in this P for an actual building in the area.  Who knows anymore..... lol

[SoonerFan]

just to keep the GG Park - Coit Tower tug of war going, I'm going to add another tug in the GG Park direction...

While I can see the firehose nozzle, it immediately reminded me of a metal Chinese garden lantern.  I've looked for an image of the ones that I've seen, but I can't find the exact one.  I'd look for a Chinese garden in the area.

Similar to this, but less ornate and made of metal --

http://www.bonsaiinformation.com/Potsfo ... rn%201.jpg

kind of like this one? (bottom right on link - its Japanese though)

http://www.lightight.com/GGP/mem_images/Mem3P11.html

[bclews]

just to keep the GG Park - Coit Tower tug of war going, I'm going to add another tug in the GG Park direction...

While I can see the firehose nozzle, it immediately reminded me of a metal Chinese garden lantern.  I've looked for an image of the ones that I've seen, but I can't find the exact one.  I'd look for a Chinese garden in the area.

Similar to this, but less ornate and made of metal --

http://www.bonsaiinformation.com/Potsfo ... rn%201.jpg

kind of like this one? (bottom right on link - its Japanese though)

http://www.lightight.com/GGP/mem_images/Mem3P11.html

My bad.

Yeah, that's what I was looking for.