Lutwidge Writings

Letter to Ryan 1
April 17, 1952

Warden Yarn Co. [This is scribbled out numbers] Park Ave. New York, NY

To Whom It May Concern:

After having made numerous previous inquiries by telephone, and receiving no adequate response, apparently I have to spell it out in writing. My organization accepted a contract to provide construction materials and other supplies for your unspecified project in the North Atlantic. We cheerfully agreed to some most peculiar conditions regarding confedentiality and consented to form partnerships with your organization. In exchange, we were promised long-term contracts, as well as control and, eventually, full ownership of several lucrative New York real estate properties. We are most dismayed to discover that our contracts have been cut off in recent months without valid explanation. Raw materials, purchased upfront by our organization, rust and rot at our docks as we await contact regarding delivery. We find ourselves most vexed by this utter lack of response; not in the least because we have exposed ourselves to undue risk in the implementation of your particular demands. We have grown increasingly suspicious that your organization has used ours as a "shield" to obfuscate your actual purposes. Perhaps your intent is to prevent the government from ascertaining the true nature of your unspecified project in the North Atlantic (op. cit., Q.E.D). We do not intend, as the popular parlance has it, to be left "holding the bag." We fully expect you to come through in your obligations; or failing that, to offer us a sizeable cash settlement to compensate us for this ongoing frustration.

With increasing pique, O.O.L Orrin Oscar Lutwidge

Letter to Ryan 2
June 22, 1954

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IN SHORT, Mr. R. (if that IS WHO YOU ARE). I have deduced who you are and what you are up to. Others will, soon - all too soon. Despite your best efforts - a trail remains. It is only a matter of connecting the dots. If you would like to KEEP your secret. I would advise that you contact me. Others are already finding the clues — putting the pieces together.

..This irksome French heiress and various agencies of the United States gov't. are moving in closer. Inch by inch, they encroach upon the center of the secret. It is my choice now. I could assist them - or I could cast chimeri- cal glamours to lead them astray. (I have already taken it upon myself to destroy hard evidence of the city's existence and to introduce false evidence to confound & confuse these Unworthies.) It is my understand- ing that you sought to gather the brightest and the best under your banner: yet you have left this very brightest mind alone in the shadows.

..I advise you. kind sir: test not my patience. You should reward your faithful servant, lest you taste his wrath.

..I await the coordinates of RAPTURE.

..............................With mounting impatience:

....................................O.O.L.

Quain's Journal
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To square the circle is a tangle yet a problem more easily subsumed than to find a triangle within the triangle Ye be lost unless ye find it and ye find it, ye be DOOMED Here there be MONSTERS

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Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...the pool of tears..."

In that sea of wreckage gleams the golden eye that leads the bold to -RAPTURE- and the rest to merely DIE  Page 3:

Down the RabbiTHole and what Orrin found there

Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...Down down down. Would the fall never come to an end? 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think-'..."

"'...-yes, that's about the right distance-But then i wonder what Latitude and Longitude I've got to?...'"

(Arrow pointing to the passage) Wouldn't you like to know? Such nice grand words to say

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Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!'..."

Always late..... too late

1959 and the party's almost over!

(picture of Rapture masquerade ball with white rabbit mask)

What does the White Rabbit know? Should auld acquaintance be forgot? YES YES 100x YES

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(Cut out of the mad hatter's tea party with mask pictures glued over the characters' faces)

Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...'No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming. 'There's plenty of room!' said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table..."

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All these years, Orrin had been SHUNNED by the Master of Wonderland as if there Was NO ROOM for him. But there was PLENTY of Room!

In his new home, Orrin found people WONDROUS STRANGE, of a like he had never before encountered.

They were the BEST and the BRIGHTEST and hid their BEAUTY behind a Marvellous Masquerade.

They looked Askance at Orrin at first. But he soon Proved his worth with his Imagination and Invention.

So they invited him to try the TREATS

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Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste..."

(Pictures of plasmid advertisements and Eve's Garden)

Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice..."

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Electro-Bolt and Sonic Boom, Telekinesis makes things Zoom! Target Dummy, Cyclone Trap! Unleash the ice of Winter Blast! Incinerate will make you warm as you release an Insect Swarm. Enrage a useless bloody fool and make an enemy your tool The possibilities are rife......... for VARIETY'S the SPLICE of LIFE

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There are no Happy Endings in the Kingdom......

For WONDERLAND went to WAR!

(Various pictures from Alice in Wonderland covered in blood splotches. Also a picture of Atlas holding up a globe.)

(Arrow pointing at Atlas) Who He? Got the whole world on his shoulders!

No Daddy No! not the Drill!

The more things mutate..... the more they tend to CHANGE!

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Orrin couldn't stay with his new friends...For they had all Gone Quite MAD

(Picture of Alice looking at the Cheshire cat)

Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat; 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'..."

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Alice in Wonderland book cutout - "...'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice,..."

And so... Orrin escaped from Wonderland only to be betrayed by EVERYONE!

Let the FRENCH FRY! Let her seeing eye dogs be BLINDED

and pity the seeker who seeks in VAIN

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The secret, sweet Alice, Lies deep

For the checkered Journey can be traversed only by a knight And none are left in this game but PAWNS of the Broken-hearted Prophet I have SPAWNED

Not Quite

"The End