[Sighting][First Hand] An Astonishing book

[MidnightRunner]

Hey guys, I think this might actually be something worth upgrading to a case.

In general on this forum, we try not to talk ourselves out of instinct while still maintaining a level head. We usually use each other as gauges. I'm going to go ahead and say, and I don't mean to scare you, do not ignore your gut here.

There might be something happening with that book. Something in translating it.

What do the rest of you think?

[MajoNoTakkyubin]

Hey guys, I think this might actually be something worth upgrading to a case.

There might be something happening with that book. Something in translating it.

What do the rest of you think?

I'll be honest, after seeing Marcus's struggles in other threads, and seeing his struggles in my own thread, I might be inclined to agree.

Marcus's difficulties seem like they've continued, and pretty severely, to the point I'm afraid he might be stuck in a loop, or something similar. At the very least, it might be a good idea to rule out anything insidious going on?

I do also want to quickly point out the historical context in one of the old posts, about liburnians, Ostia, the Oracle of Amonn, etc. He was talking in that post like he was living in ancient Rome, and it was just a casual day, which would fit the content of the book he was working on. Add onto that his username, which is very appropriate for that time period, and I'm partially wondering if his first post here wasn't his first encounter with this book.

[PenOfDamocles]

What may have happened these past thirty years. Moving forward year after year and yet simultaneously stuck, both in that time that now seems so long ago and perhaps also even further back to the ancient world of the author of Marcus' curious book.

[Marcus Tullius]

I hope that I am not putting you through too much trouble. You have all been a great help already. It has only been through the cleansing ritual, which I have done repeatedly, that I have been able to concentrate and focus, allowing me to retain some semblance of order with events in my mind.

Even at the best of times I still feel as if the book arrived this morning and I just finished working on translating it. I understand that I am in this new apartment in New Jersey although in my mind I still see myself navigating through the Brooklyn apartment even though I am following a different path. It is a disorienting experience which leaves me nauseated quite often.

In order to work on the translation MajoNoTakkyubin requested I had to let go of present circumstances to be fully in Brooklyn. The translation is in the book. I just needed to find it though my eyes want to slide off the page.

There is something more that I am struggling to put into words. When I am fully in Brooklyn I feel more like me again. This me here and now is old and doesn't feel like me at all. There is a feeling when I sink back into Brooklyn that there is some knowledge I posses. This knowledge predates the book in someway that I can not describe. Somehow when I am translating the book I don't feel surprised at the information I am translating. I am comprehending what I am reading as if I was expecting to find it, though expecting is the wrong word.

There is some knowledge that I understood. I feel it's presence when I am in Brooklyn. It as if I am listening to a foreign language I am fluent in, though for some reason I can not comprehend at present. It is a comforting knowledge. I can feel that much. I can not describe it in any more detail. Here and now I don't feel it's presence and it contributes to this sense of loss that I am no longer me.

I hope that sheds a little more light on my situation though I suspect it just muddies the water more.

Marcus Tullius