An ancient heritage

In the Gang of Six office hangs an old painting which we knew illustrated the original Gang of Six. It shows a group of men in colonial garb eating a meal in a magnificent mansion, just as we do today. Up to now, we haven't known who the original founding troublemakers were, who the men shown in the picture were, but recently we identified one of them -- Thomas Jefferson!

We know it is hard to believe, but it is a positive ID from content analysis of his writings.

As a young man, around 1763, Jefferson had an all-too familiar experience with a young woman, named Rebecca Burwell. He fell in love with her, dated some, then corresponded with her over the next year after he had to return home. (Transportation was difficult in those days and things moved slowly.) While he never explicitly asked her to marry him, he made it clear that that was his intention. However, she didn't wait for him, and soon married another man.

Jefferson became a recluse and began copying passages into his journal which we think are the first writings of P.C. Seldom and seminal in the education of the Man from NEVER.

For example, he wrote these passages (from Euripides Medea), "Mortals should begat children from some other source and there should be no womankind; thus there would be no ill for men." Now there is not a member of the Gang of Six who hasn't thought similar thoughts. He also copied, "O Zeus, why has thou established women, a curse deceiving men, in the light of the sun?"

The Gang at our annual celebration will be honoring Thomas Jefferson's birthday: April 13, 1995. It should be a glorious event after years of searching for our illustrious past! All are invited.

We are no investigating whether Euripides was an even earlier member of the Gang of Six. We will report our findings to the public when we get around to it.

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