Tayari's Blog: Revenge is Best When It is Complicated

Posted by TayariJones on September 1, 2006 07:03 AM
Filed under Current Events

Check this out:
A.N. Wilson, one of London'd mose visible literary figures, thought he had hit pay dirt when he discovered a sexy letter from John Beteman to Honor Tracy. Wilson printed the letter in full as part of his new biography of Betjeman. But.... Welll...

But as it turns out, the first letters of each sentence, except the first, spell out an insulting sentence that starts with Mr. Wilson's name and ends with a vulgarity (NYT)

The letters spell out "A.N. Wilson is a shit."

I had a little chuckle at this. No one knows who sent the forged letter to Wilson in the first place. If I were on the investigatory team, I would go immediately to the person who said, "Hey! I think this letter is a hoax! And if you look really closely it seems to be a coded INSULT!" I mean, who other than the guilty party would even look at it that closely?

thx CTD.

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Comment #1, by Lester Spence [TypeKey Profile Page]

I'd have picked it up...I've got a funny habit of looking for this type of code in the stuff i get.

September 5, 2006 09:18 AM

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