http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html
The following challenge was made by Michael Drosnin:
When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I’ll believe them.
(Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)Note that English with the vowels included is far less flexible than Hebrew when it comes to making letters into words. Nevertheless, without further ado, we present our answer to Mr Drosnin’s challenge.
Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignments_of_random_points
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Text of Chapter 36, which includes description of “The Measure”:
http://etcweb.princeton.edu/batke/moby/moby_036.html
“The measure! the measure!” cried Ahab.
http://www.shmoop.com/moby-dick/chapter-36-summary.html
Ahab takes a pewter mug full of grog [The Measure] and arranges the harpooneers in a line standing across from him and holding their harpoons; the mates stand beside him holding their lances. The crew stands around them all in a circle.
Ahab sends the mug around to the crew for everyone to drink; they refill the cup each time it gets empty.
Next, Ahab makes the mates cross their lances in front of him, and he grasps them where they cross. Then he suddenly pulls at them in a strange way. Stubb and Flask look away and Starbuck looks down.
Ahab says that it’s probably for the best that the three mates failed to absorb his electric anger, because then he might have lost it himself.
Now Ahab orders the harpooneers to cut the ropes that hold the iron heads of their harpoons to the handles. Each harpooneer hands the head of his harpoon to the mate that he works with. The mates, as cupbearers, turn the heads over and use the socket ends as cups, which Ahab fills with grog. Then they give these cups back to the harpooneers, who drink “Death to Moby Dick!” (36.49)
Everyone has one more drink, and they disperse.
Starbuck turns pale and shivers.
http://www.mobydickgame.com/officialsite/compendium/additional-entries/the-measure/
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