The wife and I watched the second episode of the popular Sherlock television series tonight, and I was very interested to see several things that resonated with my ongoing Shining research. The first comes in a graffiti message code found near the beginning of the show.
This is a better indication of what I’ll call the lemony color of the graffiti, which immediately struck me…
The Blind Banker.
… because it’s basically a direct match, to my eyes, for the color of the The Shining’s mirror scrawl found by Icke forum frequenter mata. It also represents another code according to him (or her), and in a somewhat similar physical style, if on a considerably smaller scale.
And, thinking of the first 2 images above from Sherlock, keep in mind there are *eyes* below this mirror that stare at Danny as he fully faces them in an extended, even forced glance while running w/ his mother toward the bathroom window. Mata theorizes that these are the silhouette eyes of Stanley Kubrick himself, and also claims that they are part of the code as well, which he claims to have solved: “I saw murder.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Banker
A break-in occurred in which nothing was taken, but an apparently meaningless pair of symbols were spray-painted onto a portrait of a banker. Sherlock realises that was a message meant for one man – Edward Van Coon of the Hong Kong desk – who hasn’t come to work. Sherlock breaks into Van Coon’s locked flat and finds him dead. The police, under Detective Inspector Dimmock (Paul Chequer), are prepared to regard it as a suicide, though Sherlock sees it as murder. Soon, journalist Brian Lukis (Howard Coggins) is also killed inside his locked flat. Sherlock and John investigate, and in a library where Lukis had been they find the same mysterious symbols painted on a shelf.
And now part 2…
Sherlock realises that Van Coon and Lukis were members of the Tong, involved in smuggling valuable antiquities from China to sell in London, and that they were killed because one of them stole something.
Compare with this:
https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/3-whites/
Meador, a soldier with good knowledge of art, recognized the importance of the treasures (among them being Gospel of Samuel and the Crystals of Constantinople). He sent the treasures to Whitewright via army mail, and the art was placed in a safe at the First National Bank of Whitewright.
Meador died in 1980, and his heirs tried to sell ten pieces of Beutekunst (looted art) on the international art market.
Pretty close match as well! Meador’s Whitewright is in the same county (Grayson) as D.D. Eisenhower’s birthplace of Denison, forming one-third of the 3 Whites Triangle. When Meador stole the Quedlinburg antiquities during the German liberation, Ike was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, which meant Meador worked directly for him in effect.
It goes without saying that Sherlock Holmes broke the code in The Blind Banker episode, just as mata claims to have done with the Shining REDRUM door encryption. Can’t wait to see more Sherlock; startled that these resonances came up with such a seemingly disparate source.
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