(Dorothy's words about the Roanoke drawings:
"or even, as we have seen in some of our own works,
if his environment was purposefully altered."
Like the "rough magic" in Shakespeare's The Tempest, I thought,
with which Ariel and Prospero create the illusion of a shipwreck
in order to marry Miranda and Ferdinand.)
"The possibility that Lords of Rosslyn Chapel
were early explorers of the Americas," scibe continued.
"The column in Rosslyn Chapel
that looks remarkably like the structure of DNA.
If the design of this column is not a coincidence,
it points to a covert 15th century knowledge of the basis of the genetic code.
It is difficult to believe that this could have been the case,
let alone that such clandestine knowledge was expressed in human breeding experiments.
Nevertheless, it concerns me.
There is a tell tail hypertextual trail of names:
Rosslyn Chapel. Rosalind Franklin. Her seminal X-Ray diffraction photographs
of the helical shape of DNA.
(Dorothy's words:
"As if I stood beside the clear cold waters of the Castalian Spring
in the ravine below the Oracle of Delphi."
The history of eugenics at Cold Spring Harbor.)