Telephone story

John Bjarne Grover

What was the reason for the spanish flu? It could have been that Elisha Gray's invention of the telephone in 1876 was stolen by (or credited by the patent bureau to) Alexander Graham Bell, whose name could mean a telephone invention. This dispute is summed up in this article on the controversy.

On background of this article, it seems that my TEQ #1287 and the parallels of Dickinson #1287, Wittgenstein #253 and Celan letter(s) #253 comment on this story. A most interesting example here is, though, T.S.Eliot's 'Animula' - see below.

Te-lephone = The spain-ish flue Wittgenstein: 'This pain' = 'the Spain'. Celan: A double-letter to Dr. Hirsch and Dr. Moras. Dickinson wrote her poem probably only 3 years before the controversy started.



Wittgenstein 'Philosophische Untersuchungen' part 1 #253

Celan's letter to Dr.Hirsch & Dr.Moras

Dickinson poem #1287


Grover 'The Endmorgan Quartet' #1287

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): "Animula" (= latin for 'Poor little soul') - here with red lines annotated for showing the correlation with my own 5 lines:



T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): "Animula"


Dividing this into the 5 lines of my poem TEQ #1287 renders 7,4 lines of his against 1 of mine - see e.g. that 'The last one' of mine against his last 7,4 lines.

There may be traces of a 'spanish pandemic' in the mid section of these 5 - corresponding to my line 'but it's the state of France'.

It is the revolution of Lenin which attracts interest - by my 'risin-fallin-risin' clearly present in his line 5 - while a one-to-one of the five parts should have made my 'risin-fallin-risin' a correlate to his line 30 'leaving disordered papers': The disorder of the papers appears from the presence of this in line 5 instead, a difference of 25 lines. Just as for COVID 100 years later, the curve of the spanish flu went up and down throughout the two years that the pandemic lasted. Is that because Bell was credited with the invention of the telephone and Gray was not?

What happened in 1976? That was the year when I completed high school and started studies at the university in Oslo - but I hopped off at the end of the year and did not return to studies untill 1982. What was the reason why I hopped off in 1976? Could be I had hoped to find a scientific elysium, wherein Truth prevailed before intrigue, while the reality was not that simple - see e.g. these comments on the autumn 1976. Had somebody stolen a 'telephone invention' of mine?



Added on 1 october 2025:

The jewish New Year ('Rosh Hashanah') was this year on 22-23 september 2025. I read this story about the turn of the year (the story seems to be told also in other sources such as this one), and I recognized in it some elements from my own PEB ('POLAKK English Bloggi' - given here) which is a work of 365 poems of 14 lines each (a sort of 'sonnets') - plus one poem of 5*5 = 25 lines, but one of the 5-liners is repeated. If each of these 14-liners were 16 lines, the total number of lines in the 365 poems would have been 5840. How many verses are there in the 5 books of Moses? This page tells that there are 5852 verses, which are only 12 more than the number of lines in my PEB (if the poems had been 16-liners) - but the 25 lines of the last poem can be added. In this file and in this I refer to the white sea ox that was thrown ashore (in probably a storm) when I was trying to read quickly through my 'PEB', and it took up the pursuit after me: I hurried on for getting through the book but, alas, I was overtaken by the sea bull which threw me in the ditch. A few days or weeks later, a bush made of zigzag golden thunderbolts sprouted up there - on the place where I fell off the reading. These golden zigzag twigs and branches that sprouted up would then be 'the elevation of the holy sparks' that is talked of in the story of Rosh Hashanah, the jewish New Year. It would also be the colours (blue and golden yellow) of the cover to the book 'POLAKK English Bloggi'.

Now for the conclusion to this phenomenon in the context of these observations on the 'fifth dimension' in the works of Wittgenstein, Dickinson, Celan and Grover, plus a role for T.S.Eliot as mentioned here: The essential number is the 693 fragments of the talmudic parallel text to the fourth part of my TEQ and the same number of fragments in Wittgenstein's book etc. In the present context on the fragment #253, this makes for the ratio

253/693 = 0,365079365079...

My PEB postulates a 1000 year cycle for the 365 poems of mine, plus that little extra and special '366th poem'. Ah, but that is of course the 0,365 plus a little extra fragment (079) for the period of this rational number. The 'extra' 366th poem is 25 lines: 0,079 * 25 = 1,975 - which, when multiplied with that 1000 year cycle makes for the year 1975 at the end of which the New Year is called 1976. So that was the story about my 'telephone invention'. This telephone is called the 5th dimension. I did also make an invention for attenuating the effect of the COVID 19, the 'spanish flue' a hundred years later - that was a method for making a 'pulver' which could serve to stop the outbreak of an infection at an early stage. I discovered this on 14 april 2020. I hope the invention was not stolen.

But, relax, this means of course that a technology will be developed on this formal basis (253/693) which is going to show who made the theory first, that is, it will show if it was Gray or Bell who really invented the telephone first. Or, say, 'the fifth dimension technology was first described by John Bjarne Grover in an article on the internet of 1 october 2025'. It will also show it if I were the first to develop the method for stopping a virus epidemics - you just type in the question and there comes the name up on the display - never mind what sort of intrigues had been going on in the mean time. So maybe my dreams about a scientific elysium were not so naive after all.

And what is PEB #253? Ah, it is just that 'risin-fallin-risin'. And what is (253/693) * 365,079? Ah, it is 133,28 = PEB #134. There it is.








Sources:

Celan, P.: 'etwas ganz und gar Persönliches'. Briefe 1934-1970. Ausgewählt, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Barbara Wiedemann. Suhrkamp 2019.

Dickinson, E.: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H.Johnson. Little Brown and Company, Boston 1960.

Eliot, T.S.: 'Animula'. From 'Ariel Poems', see e.g. this source.

Grover, J.B.: The Endmorgan Quartet. Collected works vol.2. Vienna 2013.

Shofar blowing on an isolated island. Beis Moshiach Magazine, 10 september 2014.

Wikipedia article: Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy

Wineberg, B.: Stranded on an Island for Rosh Hashanah. www.chabad.org 2025

Wittgenstein, L: Philosophische Untersuchungen. Herausgegeben von G. E. M. Anscombe, R. Rhees 1952. Ludwig Wittgenstein Werkausgabe, Band 1. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2016, S. 231-485.




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On the web 30 september 2025
Last updated 1 october 2025