"pointless and without purpose other then to establish foolish prides"
Whom is that addressed to? I believe hoaxes should be exposed to relieve rubes of their obsessions.
Illustration: Say an otherwise intelligent young argonaught purposes to enrich himself from the efforts
of others and stumbles onto the lore of legends. Starting alphabetically he makes it past the As into
the B category and there it lays -- The fabulous Beale Treasure. All he has to do is solve the magic
puzzle and presto he's a multi-millionaire.
So he begins at the starting place -- The Code. He figures somebody somehow has proved the legend
pure as angels wings relieving himself of that chore. The game becomes a non-profit obsession.
Countless nights he wears out pencil and paper till it takes the inevitable toll on time and reason.
In time he realizes he is no closer to the dream than at the beginning. Up all night scribbling soon
causes unemployment but the dream burns out reality. All he sees in the fog is the gold, the silver,
the . . . jewelry from St Louis. He even moves to St Louis eventually and begins to claw at the
ground searching . . . searching . . . searching.
If I can save one, just one, young dreamer from the agony of defeat . . . my work is done.
Whom is that addressed to? I believe hoaxes should be exposed to relieve rubes of their obsessions.
Illustration: Say an otherwise intelligent young argonaught purposes to enrich himself from the efforts
of others and stumbles onto the lore of legends. Starting alphabetically he makes it past the As into
the B category and there it lays -- The fabulous Beale Treasure. All he has to do is solve the magic
puzzle and presto he's a multi-millionaire.
So he begins at the starting place -- The Code. He figures somebody somehow has proved the legend
pure as angels wings relieving himself of that chore. The game becomes a non-profit obsession.
Countless nights he wears out pencil and paper till it takes the inevitable toll on time and reason.
In time he realizes he is no closer to the dream than at the beginning. Up all night scribbling soon
causes unemployment but the dream burns out reality. All he sees in the fog is the gold, the silver,
the . . . jewelry from St Louis. He even moves to St Louis eventually and begins to claw at the
ground searching . . . searching . . . searching.
If I can save one, just one, young dreamer from the agony of defeat . . . my work is done.