Philippe Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Unfortunately the only one I know died about five years ago. However, there's an extended discussion of this by Robert Graves. The only problem is, I can't remember exactly where it was. I'm pretty sure that the passage that I'm thinking of isn't in Goodbye to All That, but is probably tucked away somewhere in one of his books of essays, probably in the Oxford Addresses on Poetry (or something like that). He may have mentioned it in the White Goddess when he was discussing Ogham stones, but it was probably in the essay in which he gave his theory for the real meaning of 666. And that may have been in the MIT lectures. Bottom line is that as an officer in the trenches he had to censor his men's mail, to make sure they didn't mention things like the name of the bell steeple in the village just behind their dug-out. The only one I remember was "XXXDYWIWRD?" used as a post-script. Come to think of it, how could something like that not be in Goodbye to All That? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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