Tarsier79 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 11:28 am
The interesting thing about the SB on the toys page is its termination
in an arrow. So without using them in a different way, you push the handles in, pushing the top vertically out. So what is the alternative?
If you combine it with the hammer men, you can either add the handles as even moving weights,
one back, one forwards, perhaps using CF to pull out the weights. The other obvious option is to use the men themselves as the operating weights, which makes both weights work in the same direction. Both these options are then hinted at by the two connection drawings on the right.
The fact there are two hammer men possibly suggests either a duplicated mechanism on opposite sides of the wheel in opposite phases, or applied to the above theory that both the methods are used.
The Toy's Page is a doozy alright. It could have been designed as a giant rabbit-hole of endless thoughts and no answers, but I prefer to think it can ultimately be unraveled,,, if we keep level heads. Otherwise there doesn't seem much point in B. leading the reader into an unsolvable and inescapable maze. That would be madness.
I presume that MT was altered after the arrest. It's not clear to me whether while B. was under arrest someone else connected with his arrest had the original MT ? Meaning he was concerned that others had read it ? If they did then he need not have worried, apparently. Or it was hidden away and not discovered but he still got paranoid. Anyways, after he was released he changed MT. Presumably one of those changes was to add the Toy's Page near the end.
The page is numbered 138, 139, 140, 141 (4 numbers). It has been said that perhaps the sum total 141 ties in with Bible verses etc. Probably ! I think perhaps he removed 4 separate more detailed drawings and replaced them with the 1 (of 4 numbers). Curiously he labeled them A, B, C, D, E (5 toys). We already can see that C and D are the same toy and is an 'action' duplication. A and B appear to be 'similar' toys,
in different profiles, tho I don't know categorically what toys they are. I'll come back to them shortly.
E is clearly a single toy. It's very large and dominates the left side of the page. It is imo the one on the page most resembling a standard SB. We recognise it immediately. It looks very similar to the standard SB's B. highlights in other MT drawings I have mentioned in this thread. It does have an
arrow at the top. So clearly it is representation of a
'Push Toy' ! The Student Forcep, or Lazy Tongs.
Not a 'Pull Toy' ! So its purpose imo is to point out the importance of a strategic 'Push' within the wheel. This anecdotally ties in quite well with Wagner's comments that B. said his 'superior force' could be seen by children playing in the lane. And many of us think could well be the popular hoop rolling and tapping (pushing) game. I think E is a strong pointer (excuse the pun).
C and D show two orientations of similar toys. You pull and push the handles in a coordinated way and the
pivots move i.e. the angles open and close. This force redirection ultimately leads to the hammermen
timed striking the drum or chopping block. The impact and sound being an
effect and not a cause (remembering the impact noises B's. wheels were heard to make). However there is a link back to E in that we have a clear push strategy and hammermen hitting/striking something.
A and B are curious all on their own. They are not toys I recognise. Tho I can clearly see a resemblance to a linked chain analogue. Not much to see in B .. except there appears to be 10 alternating pivots (tho B. usually shows pivots with a
white dot center). However .. two levers at the top (B between them) show deliberate angles. One to the left 15 degrees off-vertical. The one to the right (opposite direction) 45 degrees off-vertical. That is a degrees ratio of 1 : 3. .. A is strange. It looks like links but has strange protrusions to the left. There are no apparent pivots in the sequence - usually denoted by a white dot center if pivots or fulcrums. But off these we have these stalks with bobs. The closest thing I can remember that looked something like this is in MT15, which I previously have suggested are not weights on poles being lifted, but light weight roller-weights being lifted. These protrusions to me are suggestive of something similar, imo.
Then B. goes and adds the Spinning Top (whipp top ?), center and bottom. And writes his description to the right of that. And he says 5. Children's games/toys etc etc etc. When that makes 6.
So as Oystein has suggested the 5. itself is probably indicative of something in code form. And from his analysis we can count the segments in item A to get 15 (MT15 missing Prime Mover ?) and in Roman Numerals .. I II I II I II I II I II .. or .. X V .. or V X ?!
Add to 5. code and we possibly have a pointer to .... V X V .... as something of significant ideology or symbolism.
AND .. one of the propositions about B's. name change to initials J E E B is the code cipher shift form X V V O. Which may have been an early form of copyright or trademarking exercise on his behalf. N.B. hypothetically rearranging the items by way of cipher substitution to indicate an important mechanical arrangement or part within his wheels ?! A VERY important part !? Not too many ways to rearrange these, if on the right track !
