Here, There, Elsewhere by William Least Heat-Moon

Author:William Least Heat-Moon [HEAT-MOON, WILLIAM LEAST]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Travel / Special Interest - Literary
ISBN: 9780316225014
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

A military message? Something religious? Masonic? A riddle? A joke?

His knowledge of history led Beetham to a different interpretation: the Elizabethan amusement of writing verse in code, often hiding the poet’s name among the words. Indeed, the Gwernyfed inscription contained six extra letters in this order:

I M W Y L S.

“An interesting detail,” Beetham said, “and perhaps coincidental, but living eight or nine miles from here were friends of William Shakespeare. Did he visit?”

Studying the letters, Lucy blurted, “Whoa! It’s like a vanity license plate! I M WYL S! Shakespeare was here! Did he also sleep in the Headless—I mean, the Tudor Suite?”

“I can’t give assurance he did not,” Beetham said, “but I M W Y L S is also an Elizabethan anagram for Williams, as in Sir Henry Williams.”

“Nuts,” she said.

The morning we were to leave Gwernyfed, a guest who collected antique bottles told us his wife the night before had perceived by her bed a ghostly “emanation, something cold.”

A couple of hours later, on our way north, Lucy asked, “What would you have given for Headless Charlie or William Shakespeare to stand at the foot of your bed?”

Nodding, I thought, Probably more than you really want to know.

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