The secret of Gutenberg’s printing press was his ability to mass-produce copies of each individual letter. And in this he had a hidden advantage: ‘the letters of the alphabet are really simple shapes … These simple block-like letters can become blocks of metal and can become printed.’ ibid. expert
An experiment that would make people see how absurd all conspiracy theories really were: he called it Operation Mindfuck: in 1969 … Operation Mindfuck by placing a false letter in the Playboy letter’s page; they put it between another letter asking if gun fanatics had small penises and one from a man asking about the physical danger to his testicles from heavy petting. Thornley’s fake letter asked if all the political assassinations in America were really being masterminded by a single secret society, and the society it named was the Illuminati. It said that the Illuminati was behind all the chaos and the fear that now was gripping America. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head I: Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain, BBC 2021
8.30 p.m. Weekdays and Sundays: the Down Postal Special leaves Euston for Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Night Mail 1936, GPO Film Unit
500,000,000 letters every year. ibid.
When the bag is full it is tied, labelled and sealed ready for dispatch by apparatus or at the next stop. ibid.
The heir to the throne’s [Charles’] letters to government ministers ended up in a high court controversy … These letters have been dubbed the spider memos. The Royal Family: Shame at the Palace, Channel 5 2019
Some recent work by E Fermi and L Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. Albert Einstein, letter to Franklin Roosevelt 1939
In 1939 on the eve of the Second World War Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the American president Franklin Roosevelt. The letter was about an application of Einstein’s famous equation: E=MC². And his fear that the Nazis could use it to build an atomic bomb. Horizon: Einstein’s Equation of Life and Death, BBC 2005
And it comes with a mysterious stalker calling themselves The Watcher. Now this person claims to be part of a family who’s been watching and the people in it for more than a hundred and fifty years. When the house was sold to a young family with three kids The Watcher sent them ominous letters warning them against making renovations. True Crime Recaps: The Watcher House – Who Did It? Youtube 42.01, 2021
Just blocks away from the infamous Watcher house is the scene of the Litz family murders. ibid.
The Broaduss family … just wanted to figure out who was writing the letters. ibid.
‘Let the young blood sleep in 657 Boulevard’. ibid. letter