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7/28/24
I finally got around to checking the stats for the press release I published back in November of last year, through EIN Presswire. You can, if you are so-inclined, view that release here.
So just a few minutes ago, I printed out the following report, which can be viewed in Excel:
https://www.ial.goldthread.com/press_release_report.csv
Unless I am very much mistaken, it was carried by 113 online outlets. And yet, no-one, to my knowledge, has ever tried to contact me. How many people do you think we are talking? Might an average of 100 views per outlet be reasonable? I don't mean "reads," I mean contacts or glances--clicks. People who have read the title. So that's 11,300 "pairs of eyes" on the press release. Let's be conservative, and make it 10,000 "pairs of eyes."
It's a relatively short piece. What percentage might actually read the entire press release? Let's say, 5%. So 5% of 10,000 is 500.
This is compelling evidence. I'm sorry for any naysayers going into psychological denial, but it is. Could 500 people read about this compelling discovery, containing objective evidence, and not a single one of them follow up on it by writing me?
That YouTube video linked from the release has now been "viewed," i.e., started, by 305 people on YouTube. But of those, only 15% have watched to the end. That's 45 people. There have been a couple of highly positive comments, and a couple of strongly negative ones. There have also been seven "likes" or thumbs-up, and two "dislikes."
Now, understand that this should be a slam-dunk. It's proof--or at least a very strong indication--that Charlels Dickens accidentally admitted having stolen "A Christmas Carol" from someone else. And, it appears hidden in the very letter which everybody has used to prove he did write it, i.e., the one letter in which Dickens describes how he supposedly wrote it. This is proof he was lying.
That is a huge discovery. It should automatically earn me a seat at the table in Academia. I should be getting flooded with requests for interviews, and to speak to classes and seminars. Because, as you may know, I have a great deal more evidence, some of it every bit as compelling.
So why am I sitting here in my little office, economizing so I can survive on my Social Security check, with nothing much to do? I mean, I have busy work--I'm photographing my entire physical archive, a little at a time each day. And I write to professors who don't write me back, as I shared with you in yesterday's entry.
But why isn't my e-mail jammed? Why isn't my phone ringing off the hook?
It's the sheer ponderous enormity of stubborn denial--of attachment to the status quo. Or else, it's the terror inspired by impending paradigm shift.
Whatever it is, it isn't rational.
Carl Sagan said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." I have provided that evidence. Charles Dickens nervously scratched out his unintentional admission that he had stolen "A Christmas Carol," and all the great scholars of the world have missed it, even though it was right in front of their noses. So far as I can tell, I am the first one who has ever recognized it.
And they are pretending I don't exist. They can't steal it for themselves--they dare not. First of all I'm all over the internet, and besides, they are very sensitive to ridicule and don't want to live as simply as I do, on their Social Security.
But I thought I'd just point out that I was far more successful in getting that press release out there, than I thought I had been.
Sincerely,
Stephen Sakellarios, M.S.
