The message
The bay saw the sunrise under a cloak of low clouds. With a breeze from the south and scarce sunrays coming from the widest visible frame of the horizon, that stood at some point in the shore you could see. I knew it was time, and the moment just came. In fact the idea was swirling in my mind since we met. But I never considered it for real, even if I knew it was a matter of time. I checked the mailbox and found it. A message from my friend who killed himself a week ago. His work drove him crazy. He had this strange superhuman commitment with a purpose that the death itself felt envy and had to take him away from the road. He was a dreamer and also a suicide.
I just decided to read the letter at the bay, just as he mentioned me before at that time in our trip to South America studying amazonian viruses...
I took my camera, my tripod as always and started my walk to the port.
The light came in waves; first from the ocean, then from the sky. The reflection of every sunray over the water revealed the rythm of the waves on the sea. His message had begun. Quickly I took from my pocket the pachage from the mailbox. It contained three pieces of paper, one piece was pierced, the ohter had a table of alpha numeric equivalences, the instructions sheet and a special clock device.
The pierced paper had one hundred rows and a series of perforations per row with variable distances between each hole. The clock had a cap of 10 cm in diameter connected to a hollow flexible chord made of gold and platinum of 50 cm long and half centimeter of radius. In its hollowness it contained a second chord, resembling a catheter like design. At 10 cm from the cap, there was a floating almost flat metal disc that contained hydrogen at 2 atmospheres of pressure. The outter chord held the floating device but interiorly, the second chord held the cap. Which had to be underwater. The two pieces movement by the sea oscillations were independent from each other in the vertical axis. The inner cord continued 40 cm upwards, connecting the clock's mechanism with the oscillatory behavior of the sea.
Then I had to align the uppermost part of the sheet with the horizon line at that point of the bay making between the german caffe, the dock flag an you an isosceles triangle - he pointed out - and let the reflections of water to come in through the pierced piece of paper. Wait for the first tingling of the clock's alarm to start. The whole montage has to be setted up in a graded tripod - just as the one you have brought - so the paper keeps aligned with relative precision in respect to the horizon and your hands are free to take the time registry of the clock every time. The time counter had to be started after the first tingling of the clock: which means that it is correctly calibrated with the sea oscillations.
The registry had to be issued when the first flash of light passes through the first hole of the paper at that position in perspective towards the sea. After recording the time, move to the second hole and repeat the step for every hole, registering the time every time - He stressed out in the notes -
One hundred time registries were taken.
After having registered the time, the numbers had to be subtracted. The first minus the second and the result minus the third, the result minus the fourth and so on and so forth. Taking the result of every subtraction and pointing out on a paper in a 10 by 10 matrix. Every cipher was a letter that aligning it with the alpha numeric 10 x 10 matrix revealed the message.
The message said: Eureka! apparently it works!
I just decided to read the letter at the bay, just as he mentioned me before at that time in our trip to South America studying amazonian viruses...
I took my camera, my tripod as always and started my walk to the port.
The light came in waves; first from the ocean, then from the sky. The reflection of every sunray over the water revealed the rythm of the waves on the sea. His message had begun. Quickly I took from my pocket the pachage from the mailbox. It contained three pieces of paper, one piece was pierced, the ohter had a table of alpha numeric equivalences, the instructions sheet and a special clock device.
The pierced paper had one hundred rows and a series of perforations per row with variable distances between each hole. The clock had a cap of 10 cm in diameter connected to a hollow flexible chord made of gold and platinum of 50 cm long and half centimeter of radius. In its hollowness it contained a second chord, resembling a catheter like design. At 10 cm from the cap, there was a floating almost flat metal disc that contained hydrogen at 2 atmospheres of pressure. The outter chord held the floating device but interiorly, the second chord held the cap. Which had to be underwater. The two pieces movement by the sea oscillations were independent from each other in the vertical axis. The inner cord continued 40 cm upwards, connecting the clock's mechanism with the oscillatory behavior of the sea.
Then I had to align the uppermost part of the sheet with the horizon line at that point of the bay making between the german caffe, the dock flag an you an isosceles triangle - he pointed out - and let the reflections of water to come in through the pierced piece of paper. Wait for the first tingling of the clock's alarm to start. The whole montage has to be setted up in a graded tripod - just as the one you have brought - so the paper keeps aligned with relative precision in respect to the horizon and your hands are free to take the time registry of the clock every time. The time counter had to be started after the first tingling of the clock: which means that it is correctly calibrated with the sea oscillations.
The registry had to be issued when the first flash of light passes through the first hole of the paper at that position in perspective towards the sea. After recording the time, move to the second hole and repeat the step for every hole, registering the time every time - He stressed out in the notes -
One hundred time registries were taken.
After having registered the time, the numbers had to be subtracted. The first minus the second and the result minus the third, the result minus the fourth and so on and so forth. Taking the result of every subtraction and pointing out on a paper in a 10 by 10 matrix. Every cipher was a letter that aligning it with the alpha numeric 10 x 10 matrix revealed the message.
The message said: Eureka! apparently it works!
Comentarios
Publicar un comentario