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I was reading a Colin Wilson book where it said that Francis Bacon said that the human mind is easily fooled: that we believe what we want to believe, and recognize only those facts that conform to those beliefs.
Now, a lot of people say Francis Bacon wrote the Shakespeare plays, in addition to making all those really cool paintings. In <i>The Tempest,</i> Act 1, Scene 2, it says, "Begun to tell me what I am: but stopp'd." That's the first line. "And left me to a bootless inquisition." That's the second line. And the third line: "Concluding 'Stay'"â€"colonâ€""'not yet.'" Get it? "Begun" begins with a "B," and "And" begins with an "A," and "Concluding" begins with "C-O-N." "B-A-C-O-N." "Bacon"! Also, on the back cover of <i>King Lear,</i> Shakespeare isn't wearing any shoes, and he's facing the wrong way. It seems pretty obvious to me, but what do I know? I heard maybe he wrote the King James Bible too. There are three verses in <i>Exodus,</i> one after the other, each with seventy-two letters each, and if you stack them on top of each other and write the second one backwards while standing on a chair, it sounds like "Cranberry sauce." Now, Shakespeare says it was just a drawing that Julian had brought home from school, but I don't believe that for a minute. I don't know what to believe anymore.