March 5, 2010

• Nostradamus Predicts the Coming of Dear Ricky

   

  Nostradamus made his predictions in quatrains, meaning pieces of verse with a length of four lines.

  These were composed so as not to be easily read, in convoluted French, with distortions and anagrams of names, and insertions of words in Greek, Latin and other languages

   

  For many months I have strived to discern the meaning of one of these quatrains, written in Nostradamus’s enigmatic style

   

  Caligula having made four-thousand and twenty strides

  Both sheep and kingless state bereft of the lusty churchman

  Who falls before a chariot from which the conqueror stirs not

  This foreign son brought through snow by the new sun

   

  Finally I remembered that the the name of the roman emperor Caligula was not in fact Caligula. That was only his nickname, and means “boots.” As four-thousand and twenty strides of boots required only two-thousand and ten pairs of feet, the meaning was obviously an encrypted measure of time, “when time has marched to 2010.”

  Once I understood this, it all became clear with amazing speed.

  “Kingless state” means republic, and “flock” is a widespread term used by Christians to refer to themselves.

  “Foreign son….brought by the new sun,” is a complex word play, intended to maker the fourth line give spatial directions, in opposition to the first, which gave the date .

  “….brought by the new sun” means coming from the east, but “through snow,” means by a route through the far north. As “foreign” in Greek is “Xena,” which closely resembles the name of the ancient chinese land of Xanadu, ”foreign son” means “chinese xangan.”

  Enough of this tedious explaining. Here is the full and obvious explanation, in modern English and style.

   

  By the time 2010 arrives

  Dan will have chucked aside both the Republican party and his christian flock to go chasing boobs instead

  And Ricky, the chinese guy from Toronto, will kick his ass without leaving his wheelchair

   

   

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