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Solved There are only three kinds of problems. i) Those to which
we know the solution. ii) Those to which we know the solution but its
a bit more complicated than that. iii) Those to which we have no solution
yet. We hold all knowledge known to Mankind in
our Archives. Therefore we can provide you with:- All solutions to all
problems. There are only three kinds of solutions. i)
Those which have been used before. ii) Those which are completely new.
iii) Those we are still seeking. Original
drawing and text by Anna Nielsen © Please note this booklet is
continually being up dated and there may be some discrepancies and minor errors
please request an more exact version when next you call to our premises or email
nielsenanna@mac.com If you have
any queries please use same email address. Prologue
The basic problems of life remain the same. It is the solutions
which change as the number of options increase. Finding the right option for
you, is sometimes the real problem. Therefore.... Life is not a problem,
Life is a solution. In trying to solve our problems we can all benefit from
mankinds knowledge. You do not have to understand how a motor car works.
You only need to know how to use it.
This drawing is only meant to be a humorous look at life from an odd angle.
..........but remember to always look on the bright side of Life.....
Very
Important Notes: Please note that I, the author of this manual, do not have
in my head all knowledge known to mankind. The decisions I have had to make with
regard to the code your problem will be given or whether an answer is known or
not known, in the following examples, is based only on my personal knowledge.
I.e. Very limited. Any error will of course be found immediately, either at
Reception, as your Problem is entered into the Computer System or during Analysis.
It will not affect the solution, only where you might be sent to wait for
it! Sorry in advance! Please note this booklet is currently being up dated
and there are still some discrepancies and minor errors. Please request a more
correct version when next you call to our premises or by email at nielsenanna@mac.com USING
OUR SERVICE Probably the simplest way to explain this facility is for you
to take a problem through to its solution. These examples are to be
read in conjunction with the drawing of our building, which is to be found
in the back of this guide. Please read all the notices on the walls as you
go along and follow the instructions given on the walls and signs.
Example (I) This example will explain how the system
works and how you will always get the solution. If your problem is:-
"I would like to know the Lotto winning numbers for the draw at the
weekend. Then the solution is found this way:- You
enter the building at the top right corner and start by reading and following
the wall notices: Please read and follow the first notice written on
the wall:- We offer only solutions. If you want Reasons or Explanations please
go next door to number 42. (Likewise if you need information about Methodology,
Sustainability, Plausibility or the logistics of implementation etc. then also
please go next door to Number 42.) Please read and follow the second
notice written on the wall:- There are only three kinds of problems.
i) Those to which we know the solution. ii) Those to which we know the solution
but its a bit more complicated than that. iii) Those to which we have
no solution yet. The difference between these three types of problems is found
in Example (VI) page 8. Please read and follow the third notice written
on the wall:- Please Proceed to Reception. Register your problem.
Collect your Registration Code. Please ask for an Information manual at Reception.
Walk to Waiting Areas. You then join the queue toward the reception desk and
when it is your turn, you register your problem. Again you read the instructions
on the wall:- Your Waiting area is determined by your code. AK Area A
- Answer known. AKB Area B - Answer known but..... ANKY Area C - Answer
not known yet - imminent. ANKY Go home - Answer not known yet - uncertain.
Example VI, on page 8, explains the difference between AK, AKB and an ANKY.
You will be given a coded registration receipt. It will have a number and a letter
code. (AK, AKB or ANKY) Yours in this case will have the letters ANKY because
the numbers of the winning ticket is not known yet. There is a specified time
span, imminent since the draw takes place on Saturday. You then follow the
wall signs, which will lead you to Waiting Area C. Here you may choose to
wait in Waiting Area C. ( It is similar to Waiting Area A) Since you have to wait
overnight we can supply you with a bed. You may choose to stay in a bed, in a
large room full of beds or you may rent a private room. Or you may wish to go
home and wait until your answer is ready. In any case you will be informed as
soon as your answer is ready. You must now await your answer. The interesting
part is what happens to your PROBLEM! At reception your problem is placed
in a trolley which a Trolley Walker will push towards the Analysis Block. (By
the way, there is a small group of Japanese tourists with a Tour Guide, photographing
the efficient running of our facility, as your problem is pushed past!) Anyway,
the Trolley Walker will push the trolley up the right hand side of the ramp, onto
the Analysis Block. Your problem will then be fed into the chute marked ANKY.
Here the Analyser tries to solve your problem by analysing it even further.
It is still unable to determine the solution to your problem. It will now send
your problem to be broken down into even smaller pieces. It will be pushed
up the next ramp and be fed through The Crusher and then The Mincer. Here it is
broken down into all it's component parts and eventually it falls into another
trolley. This Trolley is pushed by a Trolley Walker on to the Think Rooms.
A little of your problem is then fed into each of these five rooms in hope of
finding a solution. The Think Rooms ( Page 27) are:- Serendipity, where
all matters of Chance and Luck etc. are decided. This is where your solution is
most likely be found. ( Page 26) Think Tank, where individual brains will
try their best to find it. ( Page 27-28) Technology Room, where they will
use computers to try to solve it. ( Page 27) Chemistry Room, where they will
use Science in all its diversity to look for your solution. ( Page
19) The Brainstorming Room, where groups of people will discuss your problem
looking for a solution. ( Page 18) Eventually the small shutters at the front
of the Serendipity Room will open up and the solution will be given to a Floor
Walker. He brings it to Registration of New Answers. It does not need testing
because it is a straightforward result. From Registration of New Answers it
is sent to the Archives and is now part of the knowledge of all mankind.
Your Floor Walker will walk to the archives counter and request the solution.
Here he will be given a peg with pages containing the important numbers. He
puts the peg on the conveyor belt and it is sent to Packaging. Here it will
be packaged into the format you requested i.e. The numbers which win the Lotto.
The Package is sent down the slide to the Solutions section. Your number
and letter code will appear on the Notice Boards as being ready to collect. If
you are asleep or at home, you will be contacted and told your solution is ready.
You will be asked to collect it. Unfortunately, as I am sure you have realised,
the solution can only be ready AFTER the numbers have been drawn. Serendipity
did find the answer, but it is too late for you to win anything. Remember, your
problem was registered as:- I would like to know the Lotto winning numbers
for the draw at the weekend If you want to win the Lotto you have to
register a specific request:-I would like to win the Lotto as your
Problem. See Example II, please Example (II)
This example deals with obvious solutions. If your problem is:- I
would like to win the Lotto this weekend. then it would have been much
simpler. At Reception you would have been told that your answer is coded
AK. This is because this solution is well know. A message would immediately be
sent to The Notice Boards and they would estimate the time delay before your solution
would be ready to collect. They would enter this estimated delay on the Notice
Board in Waiting Area A. You would follow the signs to Waiting area A. As soon
as you arrive, you would see your receipt code and number up on the notice board,
status probably marked ready. You might have a short wait and then you would
have your answers. Your PROBLEM would have been taken in a trolley by a Trolley
Walker from reception, past the Japanese tourists. Up the right hand side ramp
to Analysis, then be fed down the AK chute. It would land on a table below. It
would be collected, probably with a lot of other known answer pages, and be brought
to Compilation by a Floor Walker. Your page would be entered into the computer
there, it would be compiled as it was printed out. Your two solution requests
would be held by a small peg and another Floor Walker would then bring it straight
to the Archives Counter. Here the requests would be selected from the drawers
in the archives. They would be handed over to your Floor Walker, again held
by a small peg. He would put it on the conveyor belt. It would travel round the
conveyor belt and be packaged by a Packer. The Packer would then send it down
the slide to the collections area. Here you would be waiting, and you would pay
for it and take it away. In case you are in doubt, your solution is twofold.
What follows would be the words making up the two parts of your solution:-
One way to win the Lotto this weekend is, to be the luckiest and win by chance,
with the right numbers on your ticket. OR The other way to be sure to
win is to buy a ticket with each and all of the possible combinations of all the
numbers. So that no matter which combination comes up - you have a ticket with
that combination - The cost would be huge. Other similar examples:- In
each case you will always have two chances to win:- A Raffle:- a) You
have to be lucky and win by being randomly selected. b) To be sure to win
a raffle you must be the person holding all the tickets. A Race:- a) You
have to be the best and lucky. b) To be sure to win a race you have to be
the only runner. If you want to know which fly will reach the top of the window
pane first then that answer is similar. You will know when one of them does,
or, one or both may fly away in which case the solution is Neither
. The code would be ANKY - imminent, because I think the life span of a fly is
quite short. The decision would be found in Serendipity. The cost would be minimal.
EXAMPLE (III) This example explains how if a solution
is not possible, the problem just changes. If Your problem is:- That you
went looking for your solution only to find that none had been found yet. In this
case Mankind is still seeking a solution to your problem and you will be sent
to wait while it is being found. This then becomes the problem for you. Your new
problem is:- How to cope with knowing that there is no solution yet. This is a
very common problem indeed. For example:- When you have a headache, you take
a pill and get better. Before the pill was invented, you would have had to cope
with the headache. You would have to learn to cope with an unsolvable problem
or wait until it went away. When you go to registration, your new problem,
of coping with it, would be coded AK. Your request would need to be very specific
because this is a very large and quickly changing area of knowledge. You would
be asked to fill in a Personal Details Form before proceeding to your designated
Waiting area A. Your problem would follow the same route as in Example (II)
EXAMPLE (IV) This example explains that although
we might have the same problems, our successful solutions can and usually are,
very different. My problem is:- I want to be rich This is
an unbelievably widely scoped request. It would comprise all successful attempts
to become rich known to mankind! It would take you years just to read it all,
if you did not narrow the scope of your request. You would therefore be asked
at reception to fill in a Personal Details Form (PDF) which would reduce the options
by removing the ones which would be of no use to you. For example the
solution requests may leave out the option of; "Marrying the Bosss
daughter", If you are happily married, with 15 children, 75 years of age,
living in Iceland and also a female! Likewise, there is no need to suggest collecting
rare and valuable spiders, as a way to become rich, if you suffer from arachnophobia!
The obvious details of age, sex and domicile are on the PDF, but so also are your
personal preferences, likes and dislikes and your colour, creed etc. In fact,
it looks for any information which you think may make the request personal to
you alone. This makes your request more likely to be successful in finding an
answer which will work for you. It also makes the printout less in number thus
reducing your cost. When you have filled in the PDF form, your problem will
be registered as AKB, because the answer is known. There are millions of successful
ways for someone like you to become rich, stored in the Archives. Some are straight
forward, but the vast majority will be a bit more complicated than that!
You would be given your coded receipt and sent to Waiting Area B. I suggest
Lunch in the Balcony Restaurant while you wait, it will take quite some time
to compile your solution. Your problem would be taken in a trolley by a Trolley
Walker from reception, past the Japanese tourists, up the right hand side ramp
to Analysis. It would be fed down the AKB chute. It would be analysed using all
the information on your PDF form to reduce the number of options requested. Always
be aware that the archives hold an astounding amount of information. You might
be surprised by the cost of your printout. Of course , we do not charge for the
information itself, only the service of locating it. We do also charge you for
the printout. The solution requests then land in a trolley or several trolleys.
They are taken from here straight to Compilation by a Trolley Walker or Walkers.
Here your solution requests will be compiled. It will probably take
several trolleys to bring them on to Archives. Your Trolley Walker or Walkers
would be sent to the Heavy Good Dispatch Section of the Archives Counter to collect
your solutions, because of the large amount. At the solutions counter you
will pay and they will also be able to tell you here what the approximate size
of your solution will be, so that you can arrange for its collection. You
will definitely need a car and in this case probably by truck. They will be
sent as printouts straight to Dispatch. You will see your code on the Notice
boards and be sent to Heavy Goods Dispatch Area, which is found in the Car Park
at the back, beside the Cafeteria. You will then collect your solutions. You can
drive right up to the counter and they will load it in for you. EXAMPLE
(V) This example explains that although an answer is well known, it can
be improbable. If your problem is How to achieve World Peace
The solution is known. It is something along the lines of:- Give every man, woman
and child in the world exactly what they want! This is the solution but..... Its
a bit more complicated than that. Your coded receipt will include the letters
AKB. Your Problem will take the same route as described in example (IV) but
since there can be no reduction in the scope of your request and since in order
to achieve World Peace, you will need to know what will make every
individual on earth content with his or her lot in life. I suggest. you personally,
do not try this. The cost would be immense. The sheer size of the problem
may lead you to understand why this problem has never been successfully tackled.
It may also explain why the localised approach, is the one being used by most
Governments and why the word 'Compromise' is so vital in attaining it. This
drawing would give the solution as possible but improbable because although the
solution is known it has never been successfully tried............................yet.
However it may one day happen, all by itself. EXAMPLE
(VI) This example explains the difference between AK, AKB and an ANKY
If you went in to a shoe shop and asked for a pair of size 42 shoes the salesman
or woman might say No problem and get the shoes from the store room.
The solution was known. (AK) If you were to ask for a pair of size 65 shoes
he/she might say I am sorry we do not have that size in stock, so its
a bit more complicated than that - but I can order them The solution was
known but complicated. (AKB) If you were to ask for a pair of shoes that would
grow with your feet so that you would never have to buy another pair of shoes
ever again. He or She might say:- I am sorry but such a pair of shoes have
not been invented yet The solution was not known yet. (ANKY)This analogy
can be applied to fit absolutely any business, not just a Shoe shop because there
are only three kinds of problems:- i) Those to which we know the solution.
ii) Those to which we know the solution but its a bit more complicated
than that. iii) Those to which we have no solution yet. If you
went into a Craft Gallery and asked for a starsign print by Anna Nielsen.
The sales person might say No problem and show you 12 to choose from.
The solution was known. (AK) If you were to ask for 2500 prints by Anna
Nielsen. He or she might say I am sorry we do not that many in stock, so
its a bit more complicated than that, but I can order them The solution
was known but complicated. (AKB) If you were to ask for an exciting novel
written by Anna Nielsen. He/she might say. I am sorry but such a novel has
not been written yet..... The solution was not known yet... (ANKY)
If you went into a Builders Supplier Retail Outlet and asked for a bale
of 2 x 2x 4 solid wall insulation. Alan might say No problem
and get the insulation brought from the store room. The solution was known. (AK)
If you were to ask for 700 bales of 2 x 2x 4 solid wall
insulation. Alan might say I am sorry we do not have that many in stock,
so its a bit more complicated than that, but I can order them
The solution was known but complicated. (AKB) If you were to ask for one sheet
of 2 solid wall insulation which would wrap itself around your entire house,
leaving clear all the opes, Alan might say I am sorry but such a product
has not been invented yet! The solution was not known ...yet. (ANKY)
If you went into a Travel Agent and asked for 2 nights bed and breakfast,
two persons sharing, in Doolin, County Clare. The sales person might say No
problem and sell you the holiday. The solution was known. (AK) If you
were to ask for self catering holidays in central Roscommon for 650 tourists -
The same sales person might say Its a bit more complicated than that
- I do not have that many immediately to hand but I can find them for you
The solution was known but complicated - (AKB) If you were to ask for a round
trip to Mars the reply would be I am sorry but such a holiday has not been
made possible.... yet! The solution was not known ...yet. (ANKY) and so
on and so on...... Example (VII)
This example lets you try it out for yourself. If your problem is Will
it rain on me in the next hour? Your coded registration receipt might
be number 47 ANKY. Now find your way to your designated Waiting Area.
See the end of this example for the answer*. Now to trace your PROBLEM from
reception to outside the main Exit. Since all employees know the layout and
procedures of our system there are no written instructions or signs along the
way in this part of the building - You will need the following help:- This
is the route 47 ANKY would have followed:- Your problem was entered into the
Computer at Registration. Deemed to be ANKY - (with specified time span) and
given the next free available number - which happens to be 47. It is placed
into a Trolley. Pushed by a Trolley Walker up the right hand side ramp of
Analysis. Dropped into the ANKY chute. The Trolley Walker will then push
the Trolley down the left hand side of the ramp and leave that Trolley in the
nearest Trolley park. He will then take the Trolley into which your problem
has landed from the analysis chute. The Trolley Walker would read the print
out which read:- Analysis has determined that Serendipity is going to provide
the answer to your problem since there are too many unknowns for any of the other
Think Rooms to forecast the answer! Your Trolley Walker would then drop your
problem into the Serendipity Think Room. Here it would spend whatever time remained
of the hour, from the time you registered your problem. It would be buffeted by
mega-numerous outside elements as well as your own personal movements. It would
be determined exactly where you were during your 60 minutes and whether it happened
to have been raining on you, at any time within that hour. When the hour was
up the solution would be handed out the small shutters beside the door. A Floor
Walker would take it to Registration Of New Answers. Here it becomes part of all
knowledge known to Mankind. It would then be moved on to the Archives counter.
The official solution would be given and a message is sent to the Notice Boards,
of the imminent readiness of your solution. Your registration code would join
the queue. Your number 47 ANKY, would be listed on the Notice Boards as ready
for collection in due course, depending on how busy they are. The Floor Walker
would then bring the solution from the Archives counter to the conveyor belt.
It would move your solution to Packaging. Here it is packaged into the format
you require and sent down the slide to Collections. Where it awaits you now!
If you were at home waiting or asleep in waiting area C, you would have been notified
and told to proceed to Waiting Area A, as soon as your solution was recorded into
the Archives. Answer*:- Did you find your way through by your self? Are you
waiting in Area C? Example (VIII) This example
explains that a combination of solutions and Trial and error may be
required for the given solution/s to work successfully. If your problem
is I want my baby to sleep through the night! Here the answer
is AKB. The solution is known, but a bit more complicated than that. Remember
to be specific in filling out the PDF form at reception. Parents of awake
babies have entered lots of solutions into the Archives through the ages and it
will be the variety of solutions which may confuse you. So be specific. The solution
will be AKB. Your Problem will take the same course as in example (IV) but
if you are careful, it will not be enormous in size. Example
(IX) This explains how although the vast majority of all of mankind, since
the beginning of time, has experienced this problem, it is still one of the most
painful and difficult to solve. But there is hope! If you have a broken
heart. If the one you love has gone. If you problem is 'How do I cope with
the loss of the one I love'? Here we can call on billions of individual peoples
experiences. If you look at WHERE page 14 then you will see where
the solutions are to be found. However, of all problems, this is one of the most
often encountered and therefore has very many solutions under all these headings.
So please be specific. This will reduce the size of the solutions printout.
The solution will be AKB. This request will take the same route as Example (IV)
and you will have very many options to choose from. Perhaps, knowing that there
have been millions of other people in the same situation as you, also looking
for the right solution, might make it a little easier to survive, until you find
yours. You might also be able to feel good about adding your experiences and your
solution to those of all mankind, knowing that you may help the next person with
a broken heart! Example (X) In this example
I choose to make the exception which proves the following rule:- We supply only
solutions, no reasons or explanations. When your problem is that you need
a cure for disease, it is a very serious subject and should not be taken lightly.
This drawing is only a light-hearted look at an everyday aspect of life, that
of seeking help. Sometimes you will find the cure and sometimes no yet, but the
positive always exceeds the negative, Mankind is a survivor. There is no cure
for the common cold, yet, but you can have a new heart put inside your body today....
There is a cure for certain cancers but for others there is no cure yet......
You can have your severed arm sewed back on to your torso.... Blind people
can be made to see... Lame people can be made to walk....and so on and so
on... The message is overwhelmingly positive and new discoveries are being
made every day. There is an added bonus:- With communication technology as it
is today, if there is a cure anywhere, the Archives will know about it immediately!
Remember to look for the solution early and be specific. Medicine is a vast
area of knowledge and all the different types of solutions will be here.
The route your problem will take can be very simple or very complicated.
Your problem may be split into several requests as the analysis continues.
Some Problems will be identified at Reception as AK's, others as AKB's, and still
others as ANKY's. There is no typical example and there are no hard and fast
rules. Your Problem will be AK if the cure is known and will follow the route
of example (II.) Remember to look for the solution early and be specific.
Your Problem will be AKB if the cure is known but complicated. It will follow
the route of example (IV). Remember to look for the solution early and be specific.
Your Problem will be ANKY if the cure is not known yet. Remember to look for the
solution early and be specific and it will follow this route:- At reception
it will be placed in a trolley which a Trolley Walker will push to the Analysis
Block. The Trolley Walker will push the trolley up the right hand side of the
ramp to Analysis. It will feed your problem into the chute marked ANKY. Here the
analyser tries to solve your problem by analysing it further. If it is still
unable to determine the solution to your problem, it sends your problem to the
Think Rooms. It will go up the next ramp and first be fed through The Crusher
and The Mincer. Here it is broken down into it's minutest component parts. It
then falls into another trolley which is pushed by a Trolley Walker toward the
Think Rooms. A little of your problem will be fed into each of the rooms in the
hope of an answer. The five Rooms are:- Serendipity, where all matters
of chance, Luck etc. are decided. The Think Tank where individual brains will
try their best. The Technology Room where they will use computers to try to
solve your problem. The Chemistry room where they will use science. Brainstorming
Room, where groups of people will discuss your problem, looking for a solution.
Eventually one of the small shutters at the front of one of the rooms will
open up. The solution request/s will be given to a Floor Walker who brings it
to New Answer Testing to be tested and then if successful on to Registration of
New Answers. It is now in the Archives and is part of the knowledge of all
mankind. Your Floor Walker will request the answer at the Archives counter
and will be given a peg with pages of the important solution or solutions.
The Floor Walker puts the peg on the conveyor belt and it is sent to Packaging,
where it will be packaged in the format you requested. I.e. The cure to your specific
disease. It is then sent down the slide to the Solutions section and your
number and letter code will appear on the Notice Boards. Even if you are asleep
or at home, you will then be contacted and told your solution is ready and asked
to collect it. Unfortunately it may be today, tomorrow, next year or it may
be quite some time before it is found. Nobody knows. But when it is found it will
become part of the Archives and the next person who requests it will be told AK.
Answer Known. So hang on in there! There was a time when all cures were unknown.
It is only a matter of time before all cures are known. Example
(XI) In this example the intrinsic value of seeking a solution is explained.
If your problem is that you are lonely, sad, depressed or just feeling low and
your life needs a lift. Be sure to look for a solution because knowing the options
can go a long way towards success in tackling a problem . This is only a drawing,
but the archive of all the knowledge of mankind does actually exist ( See WHERE*...
page 14) and you can use any or all of it to improve the quality of your life.
The Archives have examples of successful solutions provided by millions of people
who felt just as you do now! Sometimes in looking for the solution your problem
may even disappear. The solutions will be how others in your situation solved
their problem/s. At Reception you will be asked to fill in the PDF form and
please be as specific as possible. The solution to your problem is known
but its a bit more complicated than that - so the code will be AKB.
Your problem would follow the same path as (IV). You are not the first to
look for this solution and you will not be the last to find it.
Example (XII) In this example I suggest some of the solutions
you might expect when you go to look WHERE *.... page 31. Also how those
solutions would vary depending on how you phrased your request This drawing
will give the solution based on how you phrase your request in Reception.
To the problem "I have lost my keys, I want them" :- It would be
an AKB and the solutions will be twofold in type:- a) Find them or
b) Get another set of keys made The permutations of a) will be mega-large
in number! Since it must include each and every previous example of how keys were
ever found throughout history. I advise you to be specific please. These options
would have been found under all the headings of WHERE*... page 31. You might
find your keys sooner by being careful how you define your problem. If your
problem is I have lost my keys how might I find them. The solution
is probably known, but.... AKB. Here is a selection from the archives of
what categories keys have previously been found in:- a) They are where you
left them - if you could only remember. b) Someone may have moved them - who?
c) They may have been moved by interaction with another object. I.e. A tennis
ball may have hit them. Rain may have floated them away. The dog may have eaten
them. Etc......... d) Your keys are lost to you forever. e) A combination
of one or all or multiples of the above and others still un-thought of which would
need to be registered as new. If you go through all the options of what has
happened to other lost keys (Including d) and e) as above) then one of them will
most likely be what happened to yours. These options would have been found
under all the headings of WHERE*... page 31. To the problem "I want my
keys now!" :- It would come out as ANKY with a definite time span and
you would have to depend on Serendipity placing them in your immediate path, Technology
developing a Time Machine and someone returning from the future with your keys,
The Think tank finding a way for you to develop superhuman abilities and perhaps
envisioning their location, teleporting them to your hand or reassembling molecules
to make your own key between the time you enter your PROBLEM and the time your
solution is ready for collection! Etc..... etc.....I do not know the full extent
of the knowledge of mankind on this subject, as of this minute, but the possibilities
here are probably more interesting than my suggestions! EXAMPLE
(XIII) This explains the meaning of life. This drawing and this
text is just a humorous look at life and how one might lead it. If you enter
What is the meaning of life as your problem it will be deemed AKB....
There has been a lot written and recorded about the meaning of Life. Your
solutions, when you get them will include all of these, you may want to adopt
one of those, or, you may wish to register your own version at any time and it
will have the same legitimacy as all the others, because having been alive, your
opinion counts! That is the beauty of life. Each problem is personal and
each solution is specific only to the person who requests it, when based on the
reason for wanting it. The solution may be 4 but, to someone that
may mean only 4 cent left in my purse to buy food for my child. To someone else
that may mean how many million Euro do I have in the bank! Likewise,
there can be no single solution to the meaning of life. For example:-
What happens at the end of life? We die and....... Is there life after death?
When you die you will know that there............ I believe that.......
What is the meaning of life? 42 or whatever you personally want it to be such
as......... Each of us is given life, what we do with our time is.......
My reason for living is.............. Each of these has an answer but
you have to live life to find them. Each life has the right to define its
own version of The meaning of life We come full circle.
There are only three kinds of problems. i) Those to which we know the
solution. ii) Those to which we know the solution but its a bit more
complicated than that. iii) Those to which we have no solution yet.
Where there are three kinds of problems. There are also only three kinds of
solutions:- There are only three kinds of solutions. i) Those which have
been used before. ii) Those which are completely new. iii) Those we are
still seeking. I hope you enjoy the real life seeking
of knowledge as much as I did designing this facility. This is only a drawing
and it is all just a bit of fun, But - The knowledge of all mankind is out there
for you to locate! If you want the alphabetical
listing of all departments, methods of procedure, technical terms, senior employees
and breakdown of how we operate, an Index at the back. CLICK HERE
From whom Since all our knowledge originated from one or more members of Mankind
the solutions to your problem will come from someone who has had your problem
and found a solution. The a, being the important word because for each problem
faced, there have been very, very many solutions. You alone will be able to choose
the one solution which you want or maybe find your own new solution.
Epilogue
Now that you have come to the end of this manual I hope you will
see it as it was meant:- 1) A funny drawing which gives us the answers we
already know. Winning the Lotto is a matter of luck otherwise it would not
be a lottery. You are not the first to experience your problem. You will not
be the last. 2) I am sure you realise that you did not need to come to this
building to find your solution, that all the information known to mankind is also
available to you, any time, and always has been, being as you are a part
of All Mankind Remember it is out there and You have every right
to use all of it! 3) My hope is that you will perhaps make use of it
whenever you need an injection of positive thinking! It might open your eyes
to the magnitude of the ability of mankind to overcome adversity. There
is a solution, if you look for it and Sometimes in looking for the solution
your problem will disappear. Appendix* One
moment in Time..... Limited Edition - 1/500
2001 Appendix** The
Web Limited Edition - 1/500 2003
Apendix*** Lifes
too short to be boring Limited Edition Print
1/500 1996 Positive
thinking Limited Edition - 1/500 2001 I
did it my way Limited Edition - 1/500 2001 Do
not give up Exhibition Range Limited Edition - 1/500 2001 Daddy
Exhibition Range Limited Edition - 1/500 2002
I do not understand
Exhibition Range Limited Edition - 1/500 2002 There
has to be an answer Exhibition Range Limited Edition - 1/500
2002
Appendix **** This is an
excerpt from my first book
From Life to the Big Picture and
it explains literally how each drawing is created Technically how
The average adult body is 3cm tall - There are no thin people and no fat people.
There is only one colour. A body has no clothes unless specifically required by
the story line. When a person dies he or she becomes an outline, a memory, still
there but in spirit only. After Life 1994 which was the
first drawing to be printed I made a series of exploratory drawings to discover
the limitations of the human body and my pens. Mná na hEiréann
1994 is a map made up of female forms doing exercises, Lips 1994 is
a mouth of couples, Grey Lady tries out a larger scale and The Four Seasons
are trees, all four drawn entirely using only bodies, from babies to adults. Maze
1994 however is special - I thought it would not be possible to depict straight
lines using only bodies - or parallel lines or convex or concave right angles?
Yet this small drawing, its size makes it even more difficult, manages all
these - so as a vehicle for illustrating emotions, the human body has no technical
limitations that I could find. I continued the development of the technique through
the years and as the drawings are more or less in chronological order you can
see the way the style has gradually changed. The size of a first sketch can
be anything. For example Freedom was sketched full size almost complete,
whereas The Challenge was a tiny scribble about 75mm x 100mm and the
first 8 Jars were sketched on a single brown paper envelope! Which
I still have. Developing the idea is the next problem - deciding how to depict
the components of what I am about to draw:- A good example of how I do it would
be Golf - The first 9 2002. I had to find a way of drawing nine golf
holes, assuming that the average golf course is 7100 yards long, on paper 640mm
x 420mm in size with no perspective! To depict 4 kinds of grass: Greens, Fairways,
rough and deep rough, not to mention bunkers, shrubs, trees and water. In this
case it took days and days just to define these by doing a series of sample drawings.
Then research was required before inventing a golf course which has to have proportional
holes - pars 3s to par 4s to par 5s - as well as calculated
yardages which also had to total standards - Then the water had to traverse the
course, form a lake and must flow downhill, as we all know water does - Then design
the bridges, flags and signage - All I had to do then was depict a batch of recognisable
golfers, scatter them over the course - evenly - add hundreds of spectators and
I was ready for the next stage:- Making the actual drawing combining all these
bits, to scale, correctly on one large sheet of butter paper - (like grease proof
paper but thinner) This is then corrected with overlays where I make mistakes
and usually ends up looking like a patchwork quilt (Remember if you make a mistake
with pen and ink you have to start again - you can not rub anything out) All details
have to be fully resolved - because no adjustments are possible from now on.
Then this pencil drawing on butter paper is traced over with .2mm rapidograph
pen - Pencil is rubbed all over the back - sometimes in sections because it is
very messy - The butter paper is then laid over the drawing paper and every line
is traced over with a sharp pencil - Leaving a lead imprint on the drawing paper
below. The entire drawing is then redrawn in pencil on the drawing paper, from
those imprints. Next - and this is the bit I really enjoy - each and every line
is then traced over with pen (.2mm), this has to be done very slowly - very carefully
- with no mistakes - Only the small segment being worked on is exposed, the rest
is protected by thick paper because if you touch the drawing paper with your hand,
ink will not adhere properly to that area and also after it has been inked in,
it must be protected from dirt - When you come almost to the end of a very complicated
drawing, it is almost frightening because any mistake now, can loose weeks of
work! The pencil lines are then rubbed out and finally all bodies are blacked
in (.35mm-.6mm) and all features are completed. Then all that is left are the
words - Which when composed are hand written onto the drawing paper in pen - and
this is very difficult - one tiny slip of the pen - one misspelling - one sneeze
and you have to start again - It sometimes takes two or three attempts! The
drawing is then brought to Paul who makes a film of it - which goes
to the printer who first makes a plate and then prints the edition run - which
has to dry for two days - then the print is trimmed and the words separated and
I then check, title, sign and number them all. |