33 Quotes by Sir Francis Bacon on Poetry, Drama & Theatre

[Eric Roberts]

2 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

I am ever amazed by the holographic connections made on the B'Hive!

Brontobyte is a term based on Bacon's binary code.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/brontobyte

A brontobyte is a measure of memory or data storage that is equal to 10 to the 27th power of bytes. There are approximately 1,024 yottabytes in a brontobyte. Approximately 1,024 brontobytes make up a geopbyte.

 

Brontobytes are sometimes represented by the symbol BB, but the prefix bronto- is not currently an official SI prefix that is recognized by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. In 2010, following a campaign on the campus of the University of California, Davis, an online petition was created to have hella- become the official SI prefix for 10²⁷. The suggested prefix originated from Southern California slang for "hell of a lot." The prefix was incorporated into the Google calculator in May 2010, but the campaign otherwise subsided.

 

There is nothing in existence currently measurable on the brontobyte scale, but internet of things and sensor data are the most common potential uses for brontobyte-level storage. The advent of technology like self-driving cars, which will generate enormous amounts of sensor data, could bring brontobytes as a unit into the storage media sphere.

 

Based on the 2010 campaign, Twain would maybe call himself a "Hellasaurian" today.

Either way, all I can say is "Yabba Dabba Do Now!"

 

 

Yes, but why 1,024? No wait. Don't tell me... I won't understand anyway. Is this a Yankosaurus I see before me?

 

[Light-of-Truth]

1,024 is a kilobyte, or 2 to the power of 10. Or in Baconian biliteral code, "abb bbbb bbbb".

The question is, "How much is a Yankobyte?"

We watched the Weird Al movie the other night. It was hilarious!

[Allisnum2er]

18 hours ago, Christie Waldman said:

What you have written raises more questions for me! Who is that depicted in your illustration of the cover of book 9 of the De Augmentis? Ajax? How would we know him as Ajax?  Are there any more details you would be able to provide, with regard to what you wrote?

Dear Christie,

This is Jupiter/Zeus who is depicted in the illustration of the cover of book 9 of Francis Bacon's Opera Omnia and I made a reference to Astrape and Bronte the goddesses of Lightning and Thunder, ministers of Zeus.

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/SLNSW_F1/348/index.html%3fzoom=1275.html

F. BACO. (33 words - 33 = Bacon)

Please note, that the connection that I make between Bacon and Ajax is the fruit of my research. I don't know if Mark Twain or Delia Bacon made this connection.

I smiled yesterday facing the "Apatosaurus Ajax" in regards of my research on Ajax. I found that it was an interesting coincidence.

Regarding Ajax, this is Ben Jonson who puts me on the path. 

https://archive.org/details/workesofbenjamin00jons/page/132/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

I wondered if the end of his Discoveries,  talking about Ajax, was a clue.

This is how I noticed that AJAX shared the same numerical values as BACON and FREE.

Then, one sentence held my attention :" The single Combat of Ajax and Hector, as it is at large describ'd in Homer, nothing belongs to this Ajax of Sophocles".

It sounds crazy, but I immediatly thought of "Troilus and Cressida" and I wondered if "The single Combat of Ajax and Hector, as it is at large describ'd in Troilus and Cressida" could hide something else.

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/SLNSW_F1/606/index.html%3Fzoom=850.html

BACON - TT (Thirty-Three)

The word Aquilon comes from the Latin Aquila meaning Eagle.

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/SLNSW_F1/608/index.html%3Fzoom=1275.html

F. BACON - TT (Thirty-Three)

Then I noticed that the first reference to the combat of Ajax and Hector was made in Act 3 Scene 3.

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/SLNSW_F1/602/?work=&zoom=1896

"Shall Ajax fight with Hector ?"

And I found some interesting things on this page  ...

Shake-Gar (Shake-Spear)

Gar means Spear and is the 33rd Rune of the Northumbrian Runes Set.

And as if by chance, the word "Remuneration" is used in only one other Play : "Love's Labor's Lost"

https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/book/SLNSW_F1/147/index.html%3Fzoom=850.html

Francis 33 (Bacon)

 

 

 

Edited November 11, 2022 by Allisnum2er

[A Phoenix]

Hi Yann,

Only you can make these arcane and esoteric links and connections. Sublime!

[Allisnum2er]

32 minutes ago, A Phoenix said:

Hi Yann,

Only you can make these arcane and esoteric links and connections. Sublime!

Thank you A Phoenix ! ❤️

For the sake of completeness, the first Three Farthings (that bore a rose behind Elizabeth's portrait) were issued in 1560, that was the year of birth of Francis Bacon.

[Christie Waldman]

Thank you, Yann. I feel like an idiot for not recognizing Zeus. Still I am wondering, is there another reason why "Shakespeare" chose the name of the warrior Ajax, other than that it has the same number as Bacon? This is just musing:

Ajax, in classical Latin Aiax, makes me think of the Latin verbs iacio, iacere (from which "eject" comes) and iacto, iactare which can mean "to throw, cast, hurl" missiles (Cicero used iacto with hasta, spear, pike, javelin). Another meaning of iacto is "to let fall in speaking; in gesticulation." (Cassells Latin Dictionary, 1968). When I look up the meaning of the name Ajax in Greek, online, I see "a mourner, of the earth, or, light," often with reference to the two Ajaxes, or "etymology uncertain." I have not studied Greek, only Latin. It might have been a bit of a pun for Shakespeare, with the Latin word iacio sounding like Ajax, if the "j" was pronounced "y" 

Jakes was Elizabethan slang for "privy"; so was Ajax! http://elizabethan.org/compendium/29.html. Or, Jakes could mean a common fellow. https://www.etymonline.com/word/jakes.  One theory is that the English name "Shakespeare" generally, or forms of it, derived from "Jacques Pierre." Just musing.

[Allisnum2er]

8 minutes ago, Christie Waldman said:

Thank you, Yann. I feel like an idiot for not recognizing Zeus. Still I am wondering, is there another reason why "Shakespeare" chose the name of the warrior Ajax, other than that it has the same number as Bacon? This is just musing:

Ajax, in classical Latin Aiax, makes me think of the Latin verbs iacio, iacere (from which "eject" comes) and iacto, iactare which can mean "to throw, cast, hurl" missiles (Cicero used iacto with hasta, spear, pike, javelin). Another meaning of iacto is "to let fall in speaking; in gesticulation." (Cassells Latin Dictionary, 1968). When I look up the meaning of the name Ajax in Greek, online, I see "a mourner, of the earth, or, light," often with reference to the two Ajaxes, or "etymology uncertain." I have not studied Greek, only Latin. It might have been a bit of a pun for Shakespeare, with the Latin word iacio sounding like Ajax, if the "j" was pronounced "y" 

Jakes was Elizabethan slang for "privy"; so was Ajax! http://elizabethan.org/compendium/29.html. Or, Jakes could mean a common fellow. https://www.etymonline.com/word/jakes.  One theory is that the English name "Shakespeare" generally, or forms of it, derived from "Jacques Pierre." Just musing.

Thanks to you Christie. I have not studied Greek nor Latin, so your analysis, always relevant, is very welcome. ❤️

You say "Jakes was Elizabethan slang for "privy". You could not have put it better ! 🙂 

During my research, I discovered a book written in 1596 by Sir John Harington , called "A New Discourse on a Stale Subject : called the Metamorphosis of Ajax."

SIr John Harrington was the Godson of Queen Elizabeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harington_(writer)

Interestingly enough, If we don't take in count the score on page 8 of the Prologue, the first illustration of the story is on page ... 33 !

https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-osl_metamorphosis-ajax_h2815m1814-19673/page/n81/mode/2up

 

[Light-of-Truth]

I am so thrilled to be reading this dialog on B'Hive during 11/11/22.

🙂

 

[Light-of-Truth]

Just for fun, the way I think...

AIAX

The Double A's, with I between. I is 9 or 3x3, also EYE which is 33 Simple cipher.

We've kicked this around for months.

X is 22 Simple cipher, thus the year, '22. Of course 2022, but what about 1622?

Today is 11/11/22. Add 11 + 11 + 22 and we have 44.

A I A X

AIAX is 33 Simple cipher.

I suggest that if we know this today, then likely those who worked with all these numbers and letters in the beginning, the "Original' geniuses, were well aware of what they were doing. When we discover, we are merely students of the Masters, stumbling on and landing our faces on these instances.

Who were the Masters? Bacon, Dee, Jonson, and so many others. 😉

B HIVE is 44 Simple cipher. Makes sense, right? I see it. Or should I say, "EYE see it."

Coincidences, synchronicity, magic. Whatever. Some of us understand there are patterns with numbers and letters, word counts, page numbers, and most important are the meanings. Some of us left lessons 400 years ago to teach us all that.

It is very real. Fun inDeed, but it is something serious for us to learn and understand.

 

 

Edited November 11, 2022 by Light-of-Truth

[Christie Waldman]

I should have known there was a "method to your madness," LIght-of-Truth! I can't add much to the numbers discussion, but word naming etymologies interest me. It was a thing the ancient writers did. Vergil did it a lot. It makes sense that the "classical scholar who was Shakespeare" would do it. I've read that Bacon quoted Virgil more than any other author, though I've also read it was Cicero.

I woke up this morning wanting to know more about Ajax, Aeton, and the eagle connection you mentioned, Yann. Yesterday, I was trying to find the Greek word for the Latin "Ajax" on the internet.  As I said, I've studied Latin, not Greek! Alas! Yesterday, the "internet" was giving me "aethon" for "Ajas." Today, it gives me "aias."

No one knows for sure what the name Ajax means. Guesses are that it comes from Aia, "earth," and "aiai," thought to sound like a cry of mourning. I also saw "light." references. 

Aeton (Greek "aithon") could mean: "of a boar," of horse," "sleek, shining, fiery," "orange tawny," etc. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%232363&redirect=true. The Wikipedia article, "Aethon," says Hyginus calls the eagle who tormented Prometheus aethonem aquilam. Hilary Gatti wrote that Giordano Bruno in his poetry changed the eagle which tormented Prometheus into an Icarus image. Hilary Gatti, The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge, 86. Compare Bacon in the De Aug, Spedding 4:336, perhaps. (I'll try to look it up later--I mentioned it in my book, p. 36, suggesting Bacon as a Lucretian-type poet.)

Aietos is Greek for "eagle." "One myth claimed that Ajax was named for the eagle (aietos in Greek) that appeared before his birth as a sign of his future strength (see below for more on this myth). " https://mythopedia.com/topics/ajax-the-greater. Aetiology is the study of causes.

This is preliminary, but might be of interest? 

Also, this resource might be useful, Jeffrey Wilson, "Ajax in Greek Literature," (with quotations from classical authors, beginning with Chapman's Homer) https://wilson.fas.harvard.edu/stigma-in-shakespeare/ajax-in-greek-literature. The Greek word for "throw" is not like iacio but is ballo, ballein from which the word symbol derives (sym, together, and bal/bol, to throw) https://brainly.com/question/5714887. 

Edited: adding the quotation from Spedding 4:336 I promised, first paragraph of Book 3, chapter 1,  of The Advancement of Learning.

All History, excellent King, walks upon the earth, and performs the office rather of a guide than of a light; whereas Poesy is as a dream of learning; a thing sweet and varied, and that would be thought to have in it something divine; a character which dreams likewise affect. But now it is time for me to awake, and rising above the earth, to wing my way through the clear air of Philosophy and the Sciences."

Then he divides all knowledge into Divinity ("sacred or inspired") and Philosophy, and philosophy into "knowledge of God, knowledge of Nature, and knowledge of Man, or Humanity" (p. 337).

Here he defines his terms, telling us exactly what he means by the word "philosophy," which helps, since the word does not mean the same thing to us today as it did then.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."  He has personified History as if it were a character.

Also, since I'm here, rather than create a new post, I had wanted to add another quotation on theatre, from the Vickers article on theatre imagery on Bacon's use of the Orpheus myth. In concluding that "Bacon in the theatre was neither a stranger nor an enemy," Vickers ends his article, "Bacon's Use of Theatrical Imagery," with this quotation from Bacon:

Orpheus' theatre, where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp.

Spedding 3:302 (quoted in Brian Vickers, "Bacon's Use of Theatrical Imagery," The Legacy of Francis Bacon, Studies in the Literary Imagination 4 no 1 (April, 1971), 189-226, 226. The quotation is from the Preface to the Advancement of Learning. Also, on Bacon and the "Orphic myth," see Brian McClinton, The Shakespeare Conspiracies, chapter 7, "A Dream of Learning," 161-176, 167-168) (quoting Two Gentlemen from Verona Act 3, Scene 2 and other good material). 

Thanks for letting me edit Light-of-Truth!!!!

Edited November 12, 2022 by Christie Waldman
to add promised quotation Sped. 4:336 & other new material