It's entirely possible that there's copycats out there or artists looking for a way to fill their afternoon. If the tiles sometimes come with instructions on how to make new ones, how do we know this is the work of one person? We don't. ![]() Plus, Morasco's death didn't stop the tiles. Seems like too much of a coincidence, right? But Morasco, who died in 2003, would have been in his seventies when the bulk of the tiles were deployed, making their far-reaching appearances almost too much of a feat. They based this assumption off of a 1983 call to The Philadelphia Inquirer where Morasco, a Philadelphia social worker, pitched an idea to resurrect humans on the planet Jupiter. Some tiles have the usual inscription above, others offer instructions on how to make more.ĭo we have any suspects? For a long time, Toynbee Tile obsessives believed the tiles to be the work of James Morasco, a Philadelphia carpenter. The tiles have appeared in dozens of American cities, with no rhyme or reason, and even in Santiago De Chile. Since then, the mystery has only deepened. The article mentions that by then, they had already also been spotted in Washington, D.C. Their first media appearance happened in The Baltimore Sun in 1994. But not for lack of effort! Since their appearance in the 1980s, journalists and amateur investigators have been trying to figure out who is making the tiles and why. So this is just some person who reads a lot of philosophy and sci-fi and digs the idea of resurrection? Could be. ![]() At the conclusion of 2001, astronaut Dave Bowman is taken through a portal just outside of Jupiter and experiences death, and then, remarkably, rebirth. It's pretty trippy.Īs for Kubrick, Jupiter is the destination for the doomed astronauts in his 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Either its based off of the teachings of British Historian Arnold Toynbee or Ray Bradbury's short story "The Toynbee Convector." Tile enthusiasts have found a specific passage of Toynbee's that has to do with resurrection of the dead, where he elucidates the idea of actual physical resurrection being scientifically and religiously plausible. So who is Toynbee? What does Stanley Kubrick have to do with this? Students of the tiles believe that Toynbee could be referring to one of two things.
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