The Publius Enigma — The unsolved Pink Floyd riddle

a reply to: UNIT76

Im on the same page UNIT76. Finally.

This page of the booklet coincides with the fall of the Berlin wall. I've outlined the date in red shown on the newspaper. Maybe each page of the booklet represents a historic event.

The page number is "elf", or eleven in German. The date, the "freedom" reference, together with the use of German , point to the fall of the Berlin wall.

a reply to: EyesOpenMouthShut

You can download large scans of the booklet here:

Division Bell booklet

This reminds me of the backwards message on The Wall (1980)

Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont...

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My guess is it's just promotional marketing and inside jokes such as the one found on The Wall

ELO released an album Secret Messages (1983) as kind of a tongue-in-cheek to all the supposed secret messages in rock albums

--just marketing in my opinion. As much as I love Pink Floyd, I am hesitant to say that any profound secrets about life lie in their 1994 album.

I always preferred Momentary Lapse of Reason to Division Bell

a reply to: LesMisanthrope

A solution...
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I know I'm digging up an old thread, but I've just heard if this riddle today and am intrigued by it.

Initially, when I think of a division bell, I naturally think of the Liberty Bell.

America declaring its "division" from England and its forming a new country.

And just like the illustration on the album cover, even though we have successfully divided into two separate nations, we are really basically the same type of nation with the same ideals.