The first instance of "Ata" and "TWA" in TTTTA

In making corrections in line numbering and the 'finder device' I've created to find acrostic and telestic words in "The Tunnel Thru the Air," I noticed the first instance of the acrostic word, "Ata," was in proximity to the acrostic, "TWA."  [It is the first instance of 'ata' but the second instance of 'TWA'.]  Not only that, there was also a proximate instance of John Dee's last name "Dee" spelled as a telestic with an additional 'e.'

Was I surprised to find the apparent isosceles triangle created by those words?  Not at all.

At the "A" point on lines 1, 2 and 3, the first letter of each line is T, W, and A.  Similarly, at point C you have on line 18, 19 and 20 you have the letters a, t and a.  Those two words are acrostics because they use the first letter of each of the respective lines.  At point B you have a telstic that uses the last letter of each sentence on lines 9, 10, 11 and 12 or D, e, e, e.

If you bisect the triangle to create two right triangles you can find the lengths of the sides AB and BC:

The triangle pictured is a bit distorted.  The space that is taken for a vertical line is much bigger than that of a horizontal character.  If you gave the horizontal the same space as the vertical, you'd get a far more elongated triangle, horizontally, than is pictured above.

I think Mr. Gann wants us to know that TTTTA will include hidden acrostic and telestic messages involving TWA (which was dissolved in early 2001 and became American Airlines and assets of other airlines), John Dee (of whom I've written many times) and Mohammad Ata or, more formally, Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta.

I have found that, when Mr. Gann wants you to take particular notice of a concept or event, he often defines an isosceles or right triangle involving the notable concepts.  Page 69, the "Jonas triangle," is a similar example. 

Jim Ross