De Selby  The Savant
30th January 2004

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De Selby ( 1829 - 1961 )
" a pint of plain . . . that's  your man ! "

    There are times, when an utterly brilliant brain is cast amid humanity, and De Selby was the owner of one such as this. He described himself as a theologist and physicist so he did. But these were only umbrella terms for some of the vast amount of skills and learning he possessed.
    Preferring always to work alone, he made dozens of incredible discoveries in his private laboratory and workshop, and told no other man until decades later.

    He was said to excel at many peculiar tasks, including making the finest whisky in all Ireland in just one week.  But there was also a dark side to his character, and he worked privately toward his goal of perfecting a doomsday machine, which would disinfect the planet Earth from all human life which he had decided had gone to the bad, and did nothing but cause harm. He was also an accomplished musician, but was only ever heard playing difficult discordant music, which often included highly technical sections of improvisation.     After His death (disappearance), most of his voluminous writing, was compiled into "The De Selby Codex". The reason for this was that his attention darted between many things, and the resulting original writings, appeared to the casual observer to be confused and mixed up. But once ordered into a proper filing system, much great use can be made of his works.

    One of his continuing theories, was the phenomenon of "Black Air", possibly the most useful theory man has ever invented !
    Black Air is an unsanitary material, and causes "most" men to believe in the myth of night. He also believed that death was a myth, more likely a symptom of the unsanitary effects of the black air.
    Black air is basically invisible volcanic dust which propagates into the air from the planet's volcanos. There is so much of it because mankind has been unkind to the planet for too many years.

Time	Pilot Reading	Reading On Beam	Reading on Lever	Nature Of Fall (If Any)	Lumping?
today 10am	10.2	4.6	1.25	light	no lumps

Like many brilliant thinkers, he was absent minded, and often resorted to ridiculous activities to avoid some popular pastimes, which he refused to believe were proper behaviour.

1) He studied films frame by frame with a magnifying glass, because he refused to believe in cinematic projection, as most detail were to be missed that way. And this led him to proclaim most movies tedious.
2) He struggled to tell the difference between men and women, when he was working especially hard.
3) He spent a six month period studying the philosophy of the reflection, in which he conducted all his viewing, writing and vision through an angled mirror apparatus of his own manufacture.
4) He belived that human life is a deprevation of imortality for the spirit, and for this reason women who give birth do so selfishly. He sought to prove this theory on many occasions to priests and other religious types, using simple apparatus such as :- A bicycle pump, a pair of socks, a goats eyeball and a catapult.

Black Light
The black air principle was later expanded to include black light. Professor Charles Paper of Litmus University, Stockholm said in 1985 that electric lights work not by emitting light, but by sucking dark. Key principles of dark light are as follows :-

• Dark is heavier than light

• Dark travels faster than light

• Dark is coloured

In modern times, domestic incandescent light bulbs can be observed to turn grey over time instead of white. This is because the longer they are switched on, the more black they have sucked in. In De Selby's time, he observed that a candle comes with a white wick, but as it is used the wick turns black.
    We now know that he was observing a primitive type of dark sucker, and his observations and research led along way to the eventual understanding of this principle.

Unfortunately the science of Black Light and Dark Suckers is of no practical use to anyone.

Dark Matter
Over three quarters of all matter in the universe is undetected. Einsteinian general theory states that " if you put vinegar on your chips in the chippy, then they will be soggy by the time you get home ", so we know that much of the universe must be contained in black holes or other such difficult to measure meals.

Black Magic
Woman was written by Fleetwood Mac, but the most celebrated version, and also my personal favourite was by the Carlos Santana Band.
Voodoo is a form of black magic I think. You can learn much of the subject of Voodoo from the great writing of Dr James Hendrix, of the university of Drugs and Rocknroll, he wrote Voodoo Chile.

More Soon ........

Other Unorthodox Scientists Celebrated on Wookie Home Website Are :-

Nikola Tesla - inventor of Radio, Transformers, AC power, Hydroelectric power...
Dr. Wilhelm Reich - Cloudbuster          Robert Hooke - Englands Forgotten Genius
John Ernst Worrel Keeley - Sympathetic Vibration Physics
Christiaan Huygens - Scientist, Astronomer, Inventor of Clock Pendulum

In Rememberence of the Following Irish Authors Who Are My Great Influence :- James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett

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