The "Key" to The Tunnel Thru the Air?

There are keys and then there are keys.  There might be a key (or keys) to understanding the methods of encoding knowledge in TTTTA and then there might be keys to understanding the knowledge might might be unearthed once its identified.  Example.  I have written several essays on "Robert Gordon's Seven Days" which, I believe, shows the relation of time (east west mileage) and price (north south mileage).  But that hardly gets me to the point of applying spherical trig, and even then, correlating that academic mess with markets.  One step at a time (said as I get ready to pull out my old trig books).

The Foreword to The Tunnel Thru the Air would seem to be pretty straightforward about the objective of the book.  Perhaps Mr. Gann provides a "hidden highlighter" that might tell us portions that are more important that others or otherwise provide meaning.

Check out the last letters of lines of the first paragraph of the Foreword:

The last letters on each line are D, t, s, n, o, e, e, e, e, e, e, s.  There are six consecutive e's to end each of those lines.  What might be the probability of six consecutive e's?  A joint probability that, if each position has a 1 out of 24 probability, then it would be the (1/24)^6.  Actually, it happens that words end in 'e' far more often than many other letters….say the letters 'u' or 'x'.  Maybe the probability of an 'e' ending a line is as a 50% proposition (vastly overstated I'm sure).  Assuming that, the joint probability that you get five consecutive e's---(.5)^6---very unlikely I'd expect.  [I hope I haven't misstated my recollection of probability as its rather dusty.]  Unless, that is, there is design.

So, for the 'message' attached to the five e's.  The first listed objective is rather tenuous.  Romeo and Juliet is hardly threatened by TTTTA.  I'd say Mr. Gann wants us to gain an understanding of Biblical natural law and the value of foreknowledge to one's wellbeing.  And I think he gives us the 'method' for identifying that which he wants us to understand.  A key.  I expect there are many keys to methods, but this would seem to be one.

The above is really just a warm-up, but I'd offer the second act of this essay will not be as powerful as billed in the title.  Still, it is something to ponder.  Take a look at the first letters of each line on the first full paragraph of the second page of the Foreword:

The letters are W, Y, w, f, w, r, t, t, a, d, d, w, w.  I find "add".  Interesting, but we find coincidentally spelled three and even four letter words in acrostic methods quite frequently.  Now read the whole sentences that are comprised of the lines that begin with 'a d d:'

The key (a key to substance as opposed to method), I'd submit, is "Add".  Needs a wee bit of elaboration but perhaps poetically profound at the least.  Worthy of the pondering regarding what "a d d" might include or exclude.  Still I expect this method has promise for being a key for some of the work that needs to be done to understand the inscrutable Mr. Gann.  A lot of work.

Jim Ross