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QRPEUD FRVDV by ~anhdres:iconanhdres:

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Submitted: April 14, 2005
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  1. T H E S T O R Y
    Last year an entire life's friend of my grandfather passed away. He knew him since his thirties, he is 82 years old give or take, and his friend was at least 10 years older. He was very intellectual and fond of classical music, specially Wagner. He had not much of a family himself, only a distant nephew, so when he died, my family pretty much received most of his belongings. I got a handful of old records, and several photography related books, very old most of them, and mainly in german and french. He was a photographer, btw. So this didn't come as a surprise. My grandfather is a photographer as well, and that's where they knew each other from. What came as a surprise some months ago was his nephew phoning my mother, with a real surprise: she had found an old document on a forgotten suit on a dusty cellar, and a photo. The document was from my country, and has his photo as a very young man, but another name. In the photo is him in his twenties dressed on a white tuxedo on a kind of party, and you can see people in the back dressed like in the 20's fashion, clearly before inmigration. It is now when everybody realizes they had never knew neiter his parents nor anything about his life prior his arrival to Argentina. He had no sons, no wife, nobody.

  2. T H E B O O K
    Yesterday I remembered the box with the various books, with titles like Traité Général de Photographie en Noir et en Couleurs, or Kompendium der Praktischen Photographie, etc, and started to read easy through some of them, mostly looking at the diagrams, because of my lack of language knowledge. Then I noticed one particular book that had no title in the old cover, only an engraved figure, it looks like a parchment, a torch, and some sort of olive branch. Inside it looked really old, and was all printed on a strange alphabet I couldn't recognize. Almost no punctuation, little bleed, strange. On the last page there was a ink drawing, also noticeably aged, of a hooded figure with the head of a bird, holding what seems to be a mirror, or what's even more freaky, a polaroid. The bird is standing on a stone path laid across grassy fields, that rises and enters a kind of hole or gate which leads to a place filled with spheres of different sizes. There are also two strange trees that don't seem to be of any known type. There is a sky in the back with curly clouds. In the bottom right there is a signature. Mine.

  3. T H E M I S T E R Y
    It is my signature no doubt about it. The drawing even looks like one of mine. The freaky thing is that I didn't do it, and it seems to be like at least 90 years old., who knows if more. Later on I found out a small inscription, apparently made with a thin sharp object, on the back of the book. It says QRPEUD FRVDV in common latin characters. Hit me if I know what I'm talking about. This is the weirdest thing that has happened to me ever, no doubt. I'm tearing my brains thying to figure out what this image means.


If you have of find any clues or notice interesting things please comment. I thought several eyes would be better than just a pair of tired ones.

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~Blackheartx:iconBlackheartx: Apr 14, 2005, 9:59:50 PM
holy shit thats so freaky man..... perhaps ure future self went back in time.... or somehting crazy...the possiblities are endless
~qda:iconqda: Apr 14, 2005, 10:39:38 PM
hehe
well then you better take it off the site :P

good stuff
~anhdres:iconanhdres: Apr 14, 2005, 10:47:54 PM
hmmm.. you might have a point there... hey wait! i did do it, maybe in the future as he pointed [link] , or maybe in the past. it's signed by me anyways.

if someone appears with a valid proof of ownership i will retire it of course. ;)

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~anhdres:iconanhdres: Apr 14, 2005, 11:05:08 PM
yeah maybe i will met dr. brown somewhere in the future, and find out some important thing about my destiny i shouldn't know but i've tried to warn me through decades... OR maybe not. :|

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~TomyLobo:iconTomyLobo: Apr 14, 2005, 11:08:34 PM
scan some of the text, maybe we can find out it's meaning
in latin, V is the same as U, and read like U

QV is like KW, almost like in "quark". are you sure there is no V behind it? can you scan that engraving?

QRPEUD yields some results in google but these are just spanish texts that google's PDF parser messes up somehow, actually they mean "nombra" if you view them in acrobat ^^
same for FRVDV: cosas here
"nombra cosas", not actually making sense eh? :)
~buzzeslike:iconbuzzeslike: Apr 15, 2005, 12:29:17 AM
no quiero saber ni mas ni menos, prefiero esto asi, no descifremos nada, la intriga me alimenta y me eleva, eternamente.

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`blackzer0:iconblackzer0: Apr 15, 2005, 4:17:12 AM
This is very intriguing...

It does seem a lot like your style. Same curvy lines. Even more detail than your usual work. Look at the grass and the inside of the gate (between the spheres).

hmm.
not only that! the gate, it has zeros and ones on it. Binary base, in 1890? very strange, don't you think?
and a polaroid... which seems to be a closeup of another "birdman's" face.

I wonder if you will find more of such drawings.

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~nubui:iconnubui: Apr 15, 2005, 5:35:03 AM
oh, this is highly mysterious... I'm shivering here

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~Blackheartx:iconBlackheartx: Apr 15, 2005, 5:46:19 AM
well if that is binary u should see if it translates into ascii [link]
~Huck:iconHuck: Apr 15, 2005, 5:52:17 AM
Ok, for real now? Are sh*tting us? Or are you for real...cause if you are, something is VERY wrong here.
Could you scan the pages so we can take a look at the alphabet you talk about?
Has anyone tried to decode the binary sequence on the doorway? I tried and didnt get nothing.

You're freaking me out...It would be cool if this was real, though.
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