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‘Your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music
- yesenadam 9y agoThe ancestor of Mad magazine fold-ins? I was expecting some dubious Bible code or play-it-backwards -type thing, but this is a cool idea. However the message is just in the sheet music, not in a piece of music at all.
- smudgymcscmudge 9y ago“Your foes look for you” “What, me worry?”
- dag11 9y agoReminds me of this amazing story and song! https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian...
- jacquesm 9y agoThat's a very nice story.
- squarefoot 9y agoAgreed, this story totally deserves a HN post.
- mgeorgoulo 9y agoReminds me of Bertrand Russell who used to write English in Greek characters to keep his diary private as a child :) (Anecdote from "Logicomix" graphic novel)
- krapp 9y agoAlso, Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa wrote parts of his diary in Romaji so that his wife couldn't read them.
- sizzzzlerz 9y agoThe Beatles did this centuries later, announcing the demise of mate Paul McCartney when they recorded "I buried Paul" backwards on the song Strawberry Fields Forever.
- basementcat 9y agoNot unlike Nostradamus, they managed to announce the event several decades before it actually happened.