I read one of the PDFs
(the one with picures, I thought it might be simpler). Without spending more time understanding his evidence I'd say his decision of what is 'harmonic' and 'discordant' in the writing is subjective. His location of speeches within twelfths of the text also looks suspicious, since he includes bits of non-speech to pad it out. It's not clear to me whether he's using strict line-counting or not. Even if he is, it looks very much as if he doesn't define the start and end clearly, meaning it could just be that Plato wrote 10 speeches with a prologue and an epilogue. Either way, it's hardly a code hiding something else. If he's right then Plato just found a handy form to structure his writing around. I think his quarter-note theory is baseless, and introducing the golden mean seems a bit arbitrary... So I'm not impressed.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:35, Reply)
You read a lot more than I did!
It's a shame though, it would have been fun to have an actual simple code hidden in his writing. A bit like finding a brilliant game that has the konami code secretly placed in for a secret message. Having said that I don't see why it would have taken all this time to discover an ancient konami code that Plato made.
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Hellzapoppin, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:05,
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