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most withering invective that I have
ever witnessed the final sentence of
which read: I sincerely hope that your
contemptible little book moulders upon
the shelf and is a reproach to you in your
old age.” That’s my boy.
Often enough we were separated
for very long periods and enormous
distances and, incredibly, always
seemed to be independently struggling
to resolve the same historical enigmas
with neither one of us knowing the other
was similarly engaged. The problem for
both of us was that there was nobody to
consult; it is lost knowledge.
My own tentative solution to the
problem had to be abandoned until we
were reunited, about 1980, after four
years absence in America. It concerned
the linkage of time periods with linear
units and was the pivotal point for us
both although it took another ten years
to come anywhere near full resolution.
This concerns what John considered to
be his – to a lesser extent, our- greatest
discovery. Indeed, once in the late
hours after a long struggle resolving a
knotty metrological puzzle concerning
temple dimensions, when the blindingly
obvious answer came to us he threw
down the calculator and exclaimed,
“Christ Nosh, do you realise what
we have here? It beats hollow any
discovery ever made in any field
of archaeology.”
I am inclined to agree with him,
but I would, wouldn’t I?
We were ideally suited to
collaborate. He soared on the wings
of almost divine inspiration and I am
the pragmatic sceptic with a state of
the art built in bullshit meter. Between
us we resolved the enigmas that had
been puzzled over by towering intellects
of the past — namely the structure of
ancient metrology. The first and most
important breakthrough came with his
1981 publication Ancient Metrology.
This rather small book for the first
time in history precisely indentified the
lengths of certain units and elaborated
upon the reasons for the subtle
avantoure
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