humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Lyra wrote:
> The reason why Christopher Marlowe is 'Our ever-living poet' resides
> in the way that 2120 squares his name by means of a right-angled
> triangle. Such a triangle whose perpendicular members measure 971 and
> 1885 has a hypotenuse of 2120.

No it doesn't; the correct value is an irrational number between 2120
and 2121.

> The horizontal side has the value of Christopher and the vertical side
> that of Marlowe - when his name is written in Greek. Therefore 2120 is
> a true and square Masonic cipher for his name.
> C R I S T O F E R 600 + 100 + 10 + 200 + 300 + 70 + 500 + 5 + 100
> = 1885
> M A R L W 40 + 1 + 100 + 30 + 800 = 971

That's Χριστοφερ Μαρλω, of course. The gematria, remarkably enough, is
actually correct (apart from being utter tosh to begin with).
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