Hey folks, Harry here... If you are like me, then you are a member of CLOUDMAKERS, the Yahoo Group of Collective Detectives doing battle with the PuppetMasters to solve all of the A.I. Mysteries shrouded into the messages, faxes, emails, phone-calls, music, html, invisible writing, layered images... All sorts of tricks and troubles... And through this group the puzzles are being solved, steps are moving forward and all of that... But today I got an email from a fella named Paul about a similarity of sorts between the plotline of Evan Chan and an obscure book by Frederic Raphael (Kubrick fans know that name) that he wrote back in 1971. Obscure because it is completely out of print, and the only known copy that I've found is on AMAZON at around $100 right now. Sigh... Nothing on Ebay, Barnes&Noble or the British Book Dealers I know... Now we all know that this A.I. stuff is being written and orchestrated by someone or a group of people that seemingly put far more effort into this than any of the Online Promotions we've seen... Warners and Dreamworks publicly state "NO COMMENT" when the press contacts them.... That's why the press then contacts me or the folks in CLOUDMAKERS... Could one of the Puppetmasters be Frederic Raphael? Is his WHO WERE YOU WITH LAST NIGHT a road map to the mystery? There could be something here!
Harry,
I've seen the AI game and been keeping up with it somewhat. I'm also currently reading a biography about Kubrick and I reached an interesting passage. At first it goes on about how Traumnovel was developed by Kubrick into Eyes Wide Shut. No big scoop. Then it describes another book right after it, "Who Were You With Last Night". Now its rumored that some imagery was taken from this for Eyes Wide Shut but the plot summary says:
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"Charlie Hanson is an ex-sailor who left the sea fourteen years before to marry Lola, an attractive redhead whom he made pregnant the first time they had sex. Feeling trapped by circumstances, he works as a salesman spending his time on the road fantasising about Lola and how he might merdur her in order to spend more time with Jean, the sexually inventive colleague with whom he's having an affair.
Jean and Charlie are together in the office one night when a stranger bursts in and menaces them with a gun. Is he Jean's husband, or lover? We never find out, because Charlie overpowers him, then lets him go..."
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Common Themes?
Charlie Hanson = Chan
Lola = Laia
Jean = Jeanine
Is a sailor Trapped by pregnancy (birth lottery)?
Now this doesn't describe the events in the Evan Chan mystery, but I think it has some details that make it too big of a coincidence to be ignored. None of these details were in Eyes Wide Shut; however, this book seems to have been of great importants to Kubrick. Unfortunately I don't want to cough up $100 on Amazon to buy it so I'm off to the library. Or maybe this whole thing has me a little paranoid?
What do you think?
Pete
