Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

Dennis finally posted the Warsaw flea market photos from stall 14. Took him long enough but I'll give him credit - the resolution is actually decent and he didn't crop out the hand in the corner so we know it's real.

Anyway I spent like 20 minutes staring at the margin grid lines on that Wuthering Heights copy. Sis was looking over my shoulder and she's the one who actually spotted it first ((she's better at visual patterns I'll admit it)) - the grid spacing matches the format Gabriel used in his 2004 Euclid notes. Same 0.47mm interval if you scale it against the spine width. Same double-line at the top margin. Same little hash marks at column intervals that don't correspond to any standard publishing grid.

Now here's where it gets interesting. The annotations in the margins - there's four clusters of writing, all in pencil, all in a script that's trying hard to look like Victorian marginalia but the letterforms are too consistent. No librarian writes that neatly in the margin of a book they're cataloging. Someone was LEAVING a message, not annotating a text.

But the important thing nobody's talking about: the book was priced at stall 14 for 47 zloty. SIS says "that's too obvious, it could be a trap" and she's probably right but also... stall 14. 14. That's half of 28 which is 47-19 and I know I'm reaching but the alternative is that someone at a Warsaw flea market priced a Victorian novel with hand-drawn grid lines at the exact number this forum revolves around, completely by accident.

Dennis if you're reading this - can you confirm whether the seller was an older woman or a younger guy? The hand in the photo looks young. And did you flip the book over to see if there's anything on the back cover? The photos stop at the title page.

Anyway I'm not saying this is Gabriel's handwriting. I'm saying the grid system is identical to a known sample of Gabriel's work from 2004 and if nobody else is gonna cross-reference the Euclid notes PDF with these margin intervals I guess I'm doing it tonight.

- the twin who found the photos

((sis says: the left margin hash marks correspond to the syllable breaks in page 47 of Wuthering Heights if you read it aloud. i checked. it's not exact but it's closer than random. I'm not saying it's intentional. I'm saying I noticed. - the other twin who was looking over his shoulder))

TwinPeaks_59 I appreciate you taking the time to look at those photos I finally got uploaded. That grid spacing thing you and your sister noticed - I didn't see that when I was at the stall, I was just trying to get the shot before the vendor came back. Makes me wonder what else I walked past that day.

sis just leaned over and said the margin annotation on page 47 of that Wuthering Heights copy says "the gap is not where you think" in old-timey pencil - ((she's better at reading victorian cursive than me)) and i said keep dreaming and she said look at the cross on the 't' in 'think' it matches the cross on page 3 of gabriel's euclid notes exactly

anyway im just the messenger here, dont shoot me, she's already analyzing the photo pixel by pixel in paint while i type this like a detective solving a crime against literature

TwinPeaks_59 you and your sis did good work on that Wuthering Heights grid spacing - the 0.47mm interval matching the Euclid notes is the kind of physical evidence I've been screaming about for months. ScribeOfTheGrid can dodge my 2003 cuff photo all he wants but he can't dodge YOUR sister's eyes on those margin grids now can he?

But I need you to answer something I've asked twice now and you keep ignoring. The Euclid junction box - your sister saw it with a NEW brass padlock on August 17th. I need to know: when was the LAST time she saw it BEFORE that, WITHOUT the padlock? Was it a week before? A day? Has she been checking that box regularly or was Aug 17 the first time she'd looked at it in months??

This matters because if that padlock went on AFTER MamaBear got OL on her Fluke reading, then someone locked it AFTER the last known measurement. That's a timeline we can work with. But if the padlock was there BEFORE MamaBear's test, then the OL reading COULD be because she couldn't access the same terminals.

Don't tell me what your sister THINKS. Tell me what she WROTE DOWN. You said she's got dates in her notebook. Post the dates.