The Division Bell = Belle Isle? (Possible solution)

[Mittens PC]

Hey guys I am just making a condensed version of my posts for people to read. If anyone read my last post titled "The Journey" you will know what most of this is about but it will be more organized on here.


I believe a possible solution to the enigma has to do with an island in North America called the Belle Isle. It is located between two countries and it's history has many connections with what Publius told us. The fact the airship was called "The Division Belle" and was heading to a destination. Then David Gilmours solo album which was called On An Island released 11 years and 11 months after the Division Bell (not a coincidence) seems to give us a clue of this. I also believe that the two heads represent Canada and the United States. Keep this in mind as you keep reading. It will make sense in the end. Lets take a look at some of the artwork and Publius's messages and see if we can make some connections.


The "Wearing The Inside Out" artwork is very revealing. Here is an insert of the wiki page for the Belle Isle Park:

Belle Isle Park, known simply as Belle Isle (/bɛlˈaɪəl/), is a 982-acre (1.534 sq mi; 397 ha) island park in Detroit, Michigan, developed in the late 19th century. It consists of Belle Isle, an island in the Detroit River, as well as several surrounding islets. The U.S.-Canada border is in the channel south of Belle Isle such that the island is not in Canada

If you focus on the last sentence it mentions the border being in the channel south of Belle Isle. So that the Island is not in Canada but the United States. And sure enough on the artwork for Wearing the Inside Out there is a television (channel) that is located on the shadow of one of the heads (which may very well represent the United States) and, more specifically, located where the eye would be (Target). And we are aiming for that target (answer) which seems pretty clear we have a strong possibility in The Belle Isle. (interesting as well if you shine a light through this page it almost exactly lines up with the crumpled newspaper on the A Great Day For Freedom artwork. Seems to be an X on that particular newspaper. X marks the spot perhaps?)


There are interesting features on this Island. But one that stands out is a little something called the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. When Publius talked about information that points to a location (Belle Isle) the information centred around this historic and symbolic Carillon.

I will link a website that goes over its history as well as drawn connections between its history and Publius's messages. To make a long story short Nancy Brown (whose real name is Anne Louise Brown) was a News columnist who, at the suggestion of her readers, started a sunrise service on Belle Isle which consisted of a tower (Carillon) that would commemorate the services.

To start it all off I find it interesting that Publius was used by three men who wrote The Federalist Papers as a pseudonym, similar in the way Anne Louise Brown used Nancy Brown)
This Carillon also had its opening ring at 11am, which should make us recognize how High Hopes is the 11th track on The Division Bell and it states at the start of the song "The ringing of the division bell had begun. (significance in the page numbers?)

I mentioned that Publius's messages would start to make sense once the location (Belle Isle) and what was significant about it (Nancy Brown Peace Carillon) was revealed. So lets take a look at some of them:

"Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes"

Hers is an insert from https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/nancy-brown-peace-carillon

"The carillon wasn't the only thing making its first appearance that day. For the first 21 years of writing her column, Brown had never revealed herself to her fans. Brown thanked her fans, with whom she had gone "shoulder to shoulder down the road of life." She also spoke of the work, sacrifice and effort that went into making the tower a reality. It was "a triumph woven of dreams and struggle and tears, making it more than a monument of steel and stone," Stark wrote. She was a white-haired, small, plump woman and soft-spoken."

Her fans never seen her before. They followed her and when she set up the first sunrise service, 30,000 people showed up. So leading the blind references her fans were blind to her real name or what she looked like. The steal in your eyes is a reference to the "monument of steal and stone" (also why there are two different covers of TDB, one of which the heads are steal, and on the other they are stone. (if you look at the "stone" cover for TDB and then look at a picture of the carillon,


Here is another revealing piece of information:

"In December 1937, the City of Windsor, Ontario, received a letter asking Detroit's Canadian neighbors to pitch half the cost of the carillon. After all, letter writer Flora Wilson of Detroit wrote, the people of Windsor would get to hear the tower's tunes, too. Windsor's government rejected the request."

Now if we take this factor and we combine it with these Publius clues:

"Lastly, let me point out another Area of
verbiage I've found quite revealing:

Now life devalues day be day
As friends and neighbours turn away"

And

"But, "Is it a reference to failed negotiations?"

So I open my door to my enemies
and I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go f--- myself
You know you just can't win"

The "as friends and neighbours turn away" line is from A Great Day for Freedom and if we look at that artwork we see that in this one instant there are two heads on this page. They are turned away from each other to symbolize this disagreement and failed negotiations between the two cities. This is why I believe the two heads represent Canada and The United States.


Another one of Publius's clues was "Why would the newspaper be crumbled?"

And from https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/nancy-brown-peace-carillon

"The cornerstone was laid Dec. 13, 1939, in a simple ceremony, and Jones blessed the hunk of stone. Nancy Brown wielded a trowel, which was nickel-plated. A copper box 13 inches square and 3 inches deep was sealed into the cornerstone containing news articles on the column and photos of the site before work began on the tower. The cornerstone reads: “Dedicated to peace in honor of Nancy Brown by readers of her Experience Column in The Detroit News. A.D. 1939.”

Seems likely news articles jammed in a copper box would leave some of them crumpled (but I admit I could be overthinking this detail). Another possible reason for the crumpled newspaper would be the shape. If you look at the one on page 11 to the far right, without too much imagination that newspaper and the state of Michigan look ALMOST identical.

Another interesting detail is as follows:

. An area to the west of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory was selected, and an island in the lagoon was removed "so that the tower will have the full glory of a complete reflection in the water," the News wrote in October 1939.

This might represent the heads being a reflection of one another. Also the tree on the inside booklet of TER may represent the Carillon seeing as it has a reflection of itself.

On the cover there is a shadow on one of the heads while the other looks to have light shinning on it. The Peace Carillon casts a shadow on Canada as a reminder of peace between the two countries, which could very well be the reason for this on the album.



While I am very confident in what I presented, I am always open to the possibility of being wrong. I also want to point out that what I've presented shouldn't be looked at as dismissing individual claims as "coincidental" but more of how it all comes together as a whole. I hope others can look even further into my claims as there may be even more things to decipher.

[a_rod_777]

While I am still adamant about the direction of the Enigma I have uncovered, I would like to say that you have done some good work here and it would not be unheard of that what you have found is connected in some way to the esoteric nature of the puzzle.

Keep going until you run out of thread in my humble opinion. You may very well find a real piece of the puzzle on that island. But if you do and it is related to the Publius Enigma, I can guarantee you it also relates to the occult mysteries.

Good work! Keep us posted as to your progress and we would love to hear is someone actually gets out there to explore that specific location!

[Mittens PC]

Keep in mind a very important clue:

How and WHERE?
The Division Bell

If it turns out this clue references this island then whatever prize or mystery there is to be found may very well be something occult related.

I will keep you updated if I ever make it to Belle and maybe I will even do a blog video of my journey.

[Mittens PC]

Just putting some pieces together. Remember the back of TDB booklet? Where 3 individuals are holding flags but one of them are "missing" in the picture? check out the history of Michigans flags:

The present flag, adopted in 1911, is the third state flag. The first flag featured a portrait of Michigan's first governor, Stevens T. Mason, on one side and the state coat of arms on the other side. The first flag is completely lost, and no images of it exist, as far as anyone knows. The second flag, adopted in 1865, displayed the state coat of arms on one side and the United States coat of arms on the other.

The missing person in the image could very well represent the "lost/missing" flag.

[litewave]

And there are three heads on the front cover: two in profile and one that subsumes them and stares at you. If you are not looking at the picture as a whole, the head that subsumes the two is missing, which may indicate loss of connection between the two heads in profile.