What has been seen cannot be unseen…
The weakness of anagramming is that you can find a lot of words that could mean a lot of things. If you’re just looking to see if a word or two can be made from a collection of letters then it is a little different especially once you get into the 8-10 letter length. Think of how hard it can be to just find a 7 letter word to beat grandma at Scrabble. I’ve got to warn you though, once you know you can get a word from a section of Kryptos, it will lure you into trying all sorts of ways to show how to pull it out.
You can find Palimpsest and Abscissa in the Morse Code letters. That’s a whoppin’ 18 letters to make only two words but we can all agree they are two very important words for solving Kryptos (at least quickly that is!). Whether this is by design or just an accidental coincidence – I don’t think anyone knows just yet. Another interesting occurrence is that you can find Abscissa in K1′s text and almost in order.
Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of iqlusion.
It would be far more profound of a discovery if you could spell it out completely. So we are left wondering if this is just some accident or purposeful or perhaps part of a way to find a keyword for K2.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence
I still like what I saw on Elonka’s site.
Between “s”ubtle “s”hading “a”nd the “abs”ence of light (or “c”) lies the nuance of “i”qlusion.
Or…between “ss” and “abs” of “c” (light), lies “i”.
Or…between ssa and absc lies “i”….spells out abscissa.
Maybe it is more of a word game than some ciphering algorithm. What you’ve listed isn’t bad per se and it’s a refreshing change in direction but there’s no clear rule that is obeyed for every word.
What if you drew a vertical line, put the words “subtle shading” on the left then “absence of light” on the right. Between them is the nuance of “iqlusion”.
Then it becomes more of a riddle, a riddle whose answer is “abscissa”.
If we could properly diagram the riddle then we’d know clearly how to retrieve “abscissa”.
Hmm…
The nuance of iqlusion lies (positionally or the falsehood) between:
“subtle shading and the absence of light” (all the letters needed to make abscissa)
So how do we retrieve it?
subtleshadingand-theabsenceofight is symmetrical if we give the “L” to “iQlusion”
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success – the earliest spark in the dreaming youth – if this; dream a great dream.
I’m not sure I get your point…