BL> I didn't know Atlanteans measured things in miles!

 BV> Where do you think the term Nautical Mile came from 

  ROFL! As a little kid, I always had a soft spot for nautical miles.
I thought it had something to do with being naughty on a large scale!

 BL> I wonder if Concord is on the alignment? But if he misses
 BL> Concord, Burwood has to be on it! Or Five dock...

 BV> Shit...You may have hit on it...Perhaps you should write him a
 BV> letter and tell him that Five Dock is really the key to the
 BV> whole puzzle :)

  Aha! Did you know that if I draw a line from Renne-le-Chateau
through Mecca, it goes straight through Hobart! And if I draw a
line from Rennes-le-chateau to Five Dock, it actually misses Mecca
and goes straight through Mt Cook in New Zealand! How about that for
proof! The Templars discovered New Zealand! Must have. It stands to
reason.

 BV> Aw, shucks Bob. Your spirit of adventure is being killed off by
 BV> all the precision correctness you have been getting into
 BV> lately.

  Have I? I'm disappointed Henry doesn't examine the possibility that
the naughty priest was in league with the Devil. That was the whole
point of Languedoc, the Moors, Templars, and that - they knew ways to
do `things'.

 BL> The whole theory is built on a silliness... that a single step
 BL> takes 3.6 seconds!

 BV> But if you didn't get to the part where he was walking on water
 BV> and how everyone is the same person but called someone
 BV> different, you missed the best parts. That gets __REALLY__
 BV> screwy :)

  Yair... I got to that. The way she tied it all together was in
pacing off a kilometre in an hour. Her thesis was that everyone was
someone else, and there were two sets of everywhere... a sort of scale
model Galilee and Jerusalem at Qumran. Bloody hell!

  I'm more than halfway into Pimple and the Lodge, and that makes
a bit more sense... but they keep skirting around the occult bits. I
thought that was the whole point of it: the secret knowledge handed
down through the ages.

  It's interesting. I know the history of Robert the Bruce, and I kept
waiting for them to say something silly, but they were quite accurate.
It's thje on ly way you can test a thing like this: wait till they
get to a part where you know a bit. I find that anthing can read
sensibly until they come to an area of your own expertise - when it
suddenly turns ridiculous - but this one hasn't, so far.

  The whole thing is fascinating, but like you said, it all happened
so long ago and has been fiddled so many times that we'll never know
what actually happened. That's what annoys me with old Henry; he's
onto a genuine fact (the sudden wealth), and he's running around in
circles instead of centreing on the money. You're right, too... it's
easy to see where the two interests diverge.

Regards,
Bob

  
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