The Funny Feather Pen
15th April 1912
To My Dear Friend.
Anwar Masoet.
I am on the Titanic travelling first class that is, and
rather fascinated by these wealthy aristocrats dining and wining whilst I am
smoking a Cuban Cigar from my time travel journey to the 1960’s to meet Che
Geuvara and Fidel Castro before I time travelled here onboard the Titanic on
the 15th April 1912.
Nobody in this damn forsaken room is aware that this boat is
about to hit an Iceberg but I am not here to warn the privileged few who are first
class passengers I am off to third class to save three best friends the Rabbi
the orthodox priest and the pious Arab letting them know what is going down in
Palestine and Hitler’s Germany.
I was forced to give each a copy of the Balfour declaration
that I got from a friend in 1999.
I suddenly received a message from you on my time traveler
with an encoded message in binary because I have no mobile signal here on the Titanic
I am unable to use whatsapp. Luckily I am travelling first class and everything
is free, I am getting you a box of cigars with an apple in it to keep it fresh
by the time I get to you it will be more than 100 years old.
I was rather puzzled by your encoded message from whatsapp
and soon realised you did not know what to make of it because the paper was
more than 100 years old, luckily I still had a book full of blank pages to
write you this letter . I am putting this letter in whiskey bottle with a cork and
hope it survives World War II and the Germans, British, Japanese and Americans
do not mistake it for a bottle of whiskey.
I hope the weather is warm in South Africa because it is
damn cold on the Titanic and freezing, I will stay a bit longer for my Iceberg
photo opportunity with my new Samsung S10.
Keep well and do not forget to reply I will be in Cape of
Good Hope in the year 1652 to meet Jan Van Riebeeck and Harry the Strandloper
for the recognition of the Khoisan Nation.
I hereby end this daring note of comedy without error with
your message from the future.
Enclosed the decoded message and hope the message is
readable.
01011011 00110001 00111000 00111010 00110100 00110010
00101100 00100000 00110001 00101111 00110001 00111000 00101111 00110010
00110000 00110010 00110000 01011101 00100000 00101011 00110010 00110111
00100000 00110111 00110100 00100000 00110100 00110000 00110111 00100000
00111001 00110101 00110100 00111000 00111010 00100000 01010011 01100001
01101100 01100001 01100001 01101101 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100001
01101100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101101
01100101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100110 01100001
01101001 01101100 01110011 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101100 00100000
01100010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011
00100000 01001001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000
01110111 01101000 01101001 01101100 01110011 01110100 00100000 01110011
01110100 01110101 01100100 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000
01101101 01100001 01101110 01111001 00101100 00100000 01101101 01100001
01101110 01111001 00100000 01111001 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110011
00100000 01100001 01100111 01101111 00101110 00001010 01011011 00110001
00111000 00111010 00110100 00110010 00101100 00100000 00110001 00101111
00110001 00111000 00101111 00110010 00110000 00110010 00110000 01011101
00100000 00101011 00110010 00110111 00100000 00110111 00110100 00100000
00110100 00110000 00110111 00100000 00111001 00110101 00110100 00111000
00111010 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01101011
01101111 01101110 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01101101 01110101
01110011 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000
01100010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000
01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01110100 01101000
01100101 01110010 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100110 01100101 00100000
01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100010
01100101 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110010 01100101 01101001 01101110
01100011 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100
00100000 01100010 01110010 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010
00101110 00001010
[18:42, 1/18/2020] +27 74 407 9548: Salaam Whalid my memory
fails me, but this I read whilst studying many, many years ago.
[18:42, 1/18/2020] +27 74 407 9548: I reckon it must have
been in your other life before being reincarnated brother.
You’re Friend
Whalid Safodien
The Funny Feather Pen.
