A brief note regarding the date, October 19, 2016

One of 3 dates identified in the "2016" (see HERE) series of essays by a combination of numerical and chronological devices and a contemporary fictional movie is the date October 19, 2016.  Because the numbers reflective of the date, 10192016 can be restructured by dropping the '0's and dropping the year (as we do by reducing 9/11/2001 to 9/11) to give us the inverse of 911, that being 119, I offered my thought that 10/19/2016 would include both an acceleration of a great downturn in the stock market and a terrorist attack.  That's reading a lot into simply a date and, other than confluence of circumstance, I do not have the right to paint the character of that date which is otherwise very noteworthy.

BUT...

I like to compare the result of my manipulations to the events in "The Tunnel Thru the Air" to see if, perhaps, the date was one of note.... and perhaps, having a distant hunch, Mr. Gann may have elaborated.  What do we find on page 119 of TTTTA?  Here's the entire page:

In a single word, panic.

Is there any point otherwise in TTTTA where Robert Gordon was so conflicted?  No, in my opinion.  When in Paris he was near collapse from strain.  With the perceived appearance of Marie, he was frantic to have her supposed note (which turned out an illusion) placed in his pocket translated.  But I do not judge him then in a panic.  I do not recall that even when he was captured by the Allied Enemy that he was in a panic.

Two more observations.  First, this happens in St Louis, presently a center of racial tension.

Second and far more important.  Re-read the last sentence of the last complete paragraph of the above:

....blasted.

Panic and blasted.  I hope, no I pray, I am wrong.  Mr. Gann is not wrong in my experience and only my interpretation can be wrong.  The latter would hardly be novel in my experience as well.

Jim Ross