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THE DRIPPING PEN

10/9/2013

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The irresistible urge to put pen to paper has spawned some of the greatest literary giants of the nineteenth and twentieth century, including Edgar Allan Poe, a master of the Gothic macabre who had a penchant for cryptography, along with Fyodor Dostoevsky, a prolific novelist and keeper of diaries, who was often plagued by epileptic seizures and impending doom and depression, occasionally manifesting itself as periodic outbursts of rage. 
Both these novelists, as well as Stephen King, Lewis Carroll, Isaac Asimov, poet Sylvia Plath, along with post impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh all have one thing in common, hypergraphia- the compulsion to express themselves through writing. This affliction can have underlying causes such as temporal lobe brain injury, bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and epilepsy, routinely affecting the subject's normal pattern of behavior.
In one form, this results in the subject authoring text that means everything to the writer, but very little to the observer, as has been found in many of the letters and cards mailed by the Zodiac Killer over a five year period, between 1969 and 1974.

Mirrored writing can also result from brain injury, a trait not uncommon to certain forms of dyslexia. Communication can also be expressed as rebus, where pictures or images are substituted as a representation for words, seen in some of the works of Lewis Carroll.
Bi-polar disorder is significantly more prevalent in writers than non-writers, whose compunction to put pen to paper can be increased during manic periods ​of the illness, and this can often manifest itself as illegible nonsense to the routine observer.
Donald Lee Bujok, promulgated as a prime suspect for the Zodiac murders by Kevin Robert Brooks, suffered from bi-polar disorder. This will be discussed in his upcoming book 'Zodiac The Montana Connection'. Donald Lee Bujok contributed many articles to the Billings Gazette over several years, and if indeed he was the killer in the Bay Area, the Zodiac letters, cards and ciphers would have been further testimony to his insatiable desire for literary expressionism. To view a 15 minute video detailing the formative years of Donald Lee Bujok and more, visit here,
Lawrence Kane received a frontal lobe brain injury, sustained in an automobile accident in 1962. A comprehensive analysis of this subject, along with a detailed description of his medical condition can be better explained by Alex Lewis, at his website 
http://welshchappie.wordpress.com.
Richard Gaikowski, thrust into the spotlight by Tom Voigt of zodiackiller.com, also suffered from a mental illness and was treated at the Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. It was during this period that all Zodiac communication ceased for approximately three years.
There is, as far as one can ascertain, no evidence to support that any of the high profile suspects in the Zodiac case have ever been afflicted with hypergraphia, even in its milder form. However, the Zodiac Killer's literary contribution to newspapers, such as the San Francisco Chronicle, coupled with his perceived manic ramblings and the paraphrasing of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado in the 'Little List' letter mailed on July 26th 1970, may have just been the tip of one giant dripping pen, that we regret he ever had to write. 

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Marcelo link
10/9/2013 08:22:37 am

Look coincidence that Rich, I did some work in college on "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar A. Poe, and always remembered the words "chair devil on the island, where he could see something," I imagined Mount Diablo etc.
Rich, you write very well and their analysis of the context of the infamous zodiac always give me new ideas.
Marcelo

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Rich
10/9/2013 04:06:43 pm

Yes it helped push cryptography into the public sphere. The Gold Bug included a polyphonic cipher. Some good examples of hypergraphia are shown here including the Voynich Manuscript, http://worldwithwords.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/hypergraphia-graphomania-and-voynich.html,
Often child like scrawlings on paper, cards or any material a hypergraphic can get their hands on, can often be mistaken for somebody with low intelligence, which is a mistake.
The Zodiac often misspelled words, but not always the same word and mirrored some of his writing and coding, as well as placing it upside down, often a trait in dyslexia who can sometimes reverse words. Kevin Robert Brooks decoded the Exorcist Letter to read 'To Kill' and has dyslexia, a trait that is not uncommon, up to 20% of the population has some form of reading disability and if the Zodiac had dyslexia or some other reading and writing anomaly, then the best person to decode his correspondence would be somebody who sees things from a slightly different angle. The problem with trying to understand the Zodiac Killer is that everybody approaches the subject from the standpoint of normality, which often fails. The Zodiac Killer was definitely not the norm and understanding this problem first, means the logical steps I and many others take with complex decryption techniques and using mathematics to analyze his many cards often fall short.Trying though to think outside the box is extremely difficult on all topics concerning the Zodiac correspondence, because it is not an easy task, as theories and ideas become exhausted. But my guess is that to understand the workings of the Zodiac Killer, you almost have to become him and neither of us would like to do that.

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Robin Smith
3/16/2015 02:37:43 am

Rich,

N0w that all this Lawrence Kane info has surfaced about his 'child star' aspirations...mid 40's.....Sinatra at the North Shore of Lake Tahoe the CalNeva and Harrah's at the South Shore . Do N0t leave the MOB out of anything Sinatra did:)

TY to Galaxie 500:) the hidden messages may N0t be so confusing.

William Peter Blatty wrote the EXORCIST while staying in a cabin at Lake Tahoe in 1969-1970. He won the money to finance this cabin on one of Groucho Marx's TV show.

Edward Wayne Edwards was on these early 70's TV shows as well as many other's ilk of the 'day'. EWE was in Ca from 1967-1972.

These cards and letters were more messages for each other I' m thinking:)

Marcelo link
10/10/2013 05:54:19 am

Undoubtedly, this all add up to what you said context (the locations, technology, customs of the time), I believe that the codes, depending on who prepared mind, as few are decipherable by him. Rich, fortunately we are not like him and never will think like him, I, Marcelo, always look the "codes", correspondences and stories trying to separate all the evil that was done, I guarantee that no "effort" solutions, only propose. Also got to me, that possibly the multitude of theories, some, or all truth has been lost. Do not worry Rich, we need not be crazy like him, we just need to find the keys, watch, believe and not to believe in things taken for granted, think of something that was never thought. This I have tried. Anyway, congratulations for the great explanation.
Marcelo

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Robin Smith
12/30/2014 01:05:00 am

context(the locations, technology, customs of the time),...you've hit the nail on the head Marcelo...

Many times I am exasperated trying to explain that in the 1960's things were remarkably different here...but then again N0t so different because some of the same old people are still screwing around with the Jurisdictional Conflict Zone with apparent impunity.

Telling us to PROVE IT and do N0t upset anyone and here is the best one! WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE N0W?

Carol Doda was Holmes Hendrickson's girlfriend. Holmes being the entertainment director for HARRAH's Tahoe. She was here with the SF Haight bunch...Sammy Davis Jr, BILL COSBY, Jack Jones who(was creepy crawled by Manson's bunch) and yes Bruce Davis as well as the Hell's Angel's, Straight Satans and the Hippie contingent.

Lawrence Kane was right in the middle of it all with his mobster/FBI ties.

for example: some of these so called "local"(Tahoe) people that claim they've have been here for 20-30 yrs are kN0w it all's:) they've seen everything and kN0w everybody...that would include the Mayor of SLT,Ca. He was here 44 years ago.

44 years ago...44 years ago...N0t 20, 30, or 40 yrs ago I was sitting at the bar at the SAHARA TAHOE when Donna went missing...the cast of characters is extensive and impressive as names go.

I will name them if you like...on this public space. I will also sign my name address and phone number so if any of these people do N0t like it or take exception to anything I say they can leave you innocents out of it and call me or their lawyers as they please:)

Robin

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Robin Smith
2/2/2015 11:34:18 pm

This is getting so boring...incessantly referencing THE MAYOR of South Lake Tahoe, Ca...where Donna Lass went missing. Where Dr Charles L Hollingsworth went missing.

Several people claim that it caN0t be 'PROVEN Larry Kane' was at the SAHARA TAHOE when Donna Lass went missing and everyone that says he was there has been summarily dismissed as a liar. Myself included as I have declared more than once that he was there, I was there.

Therefore, I invoke the MAYOR, who was at the SAHARA at the time, and knew Larry Kane. I await the fool that calls him a LIAR.

Always tell the truth...it's easier to memorize.

Robin Smith
530-541-1155
Discoverlktaho@hotmail.com

Robin Smith
2/3/2015 04:06:36 am

Borrowing from Kevin Robert Brooks...We've put this to rest!

LARRY KANE WAS AT THE SAHARA TAHOE ..when Donna Lass went missing Sep 6, 1970.

Robin Smith
3/2/2015 04:04:04 pm

FYI...Jack Jones was Harrah's 1968 New Year's Eve Show at Lake Tahoe in The South Shore Room

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