The Chair Stance

During the “Brunt vídeo”, in the bit he appears sitting at the Tapas Bar, the most noticeable thing that you notice is NOT, obviously, the T9 Big Round Table or T9BRT.

However, in our opinion, it is. You just don’t know it is but that it is the exact intent of the report.

The most noticeable thing you consciously noticed was how negligent the T9 were.

When Mr Brunt turns around and points in the direction of the distant and practically imperceptible apartment 5A showing you, clearly, how totally irresponsible all the T9 had been, how really pointless it was to even think that the apartment could be observed from where they were.

Negligence was the word that popped right into your mind at that very moment. How could they, you asked yourself, leave their little children alone in apartments that were far from being at a reasonable distance to guarantee a minimally responsible surveillance?

That turn that Mr Brunt does, arm pointing towards the 5A, I call it the “Negligence Pirouette”.

A move of capital importance as you’ll see. Not on this post. This post is not about ballet, we’ll leave that for later. Today it’s about stage-propping.

The “Negligence Pirouette” was indeed the most noticeable thing you consciously noticed, but the report wasn’t destined for your conscious self but rather had your subconscious in its sights.

Pieces of information were fed so that you would absorb them all at once and, unwittingly, notice and assume the T9BRT as the genuine article. No conscious cooperation on your part was required, except, of course, for your eyes to be looking at the TV screen.

You see, the “Negligence Pirouette” practically “grabs” your brain by the collar and makes it concentrate on that fact while distracting it from all other details that are there to be seen and are captured by your subconscious.

I’ve already spoken about the “shadow trick” in the Bluntly Brunting Things Up post and said in our Textusa Corrects Textusa post that it was an issue we would come back to in a later date.

Today let me call you attention to another neat little optical illusion that I shall call the “Chair Stance”.

As is shown above when Mr. Brunt leaves the Tapas after doing what he had been there to do, the rest of the area of the esplanade under the canopy is empty, as expected.

That means that whatever piece of furniture that was shown during this report served solely the purpose of being props.

The idea, obviously, was to replicate the scenario with the original furniture (why use other?) where the Tapas dinners had taken place.

Any stage-hand will tell you that no prop is set up at random. Each object has to have a purpose to be where it is otherwise it simply isn’t brought on stage.

So when Mr Brunt speaks to you, what "props" were used?

First you have the table, obviously. Then you have three sets of chairs.

The first set is made up of four chairs, the one where Mr Brunt is sitting in, two to his left and one to his right.

The second set, is made up of three chairs, next to the beam.

The third set, is behind Mr Brunt of which we can only see two chairs.

Of the three sets of chairs, let’s concentrate on the only set that matters, the first set. Let's number to each chair of that particular set:

What stands out right away?

The distance between chairs 1-2 and the one between chairs 2-3 are not exactly the same, to say the least, as the one between chairs 3-4:

And when Mr Brunt does his “Negligence Pirouette” we can see clearly the distance between chairs 2-3.

Where is the space D between chairs 3 and 4? There isn't one. Chair 4 is stacked up right against chair 3.

One does need elbow room to eat, doesn’t one? Mr. Brunt exemplifies:

Where’s the elbow room for the two people that had to sit in chairs 3 and 4? There isn’t any whatsoever. And just by looking at Mr Brunt you couldn't sit two people on those two chairs the way they're set even if you tried without one falling off of his chair!

Mr Amaral unintentionally gives us a clue how far apart the chairs must be, on the photograph where he signals apartment 5A. On this photo a round table appears in the foreground:

Unfortunately for the T9 and their Tapas dinners theory, the chairs at Tapas bar are rather wide as can be seen. 

Check for yourself how much further you would have to stretch the yellow arrow above to fit in another chair between those two. Picture how far apart the back of the chairs would have to be if the chairs were joined feet to feet. 

Now stretch that distance a little further to give some passage room. You know, there was a lot of standing up and sitting down in those evenings according to some people.

That's why when one of our readers left the following comment I almost called him/her a spoilsport because s/he had almost rendered useless this post:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Bluntly Bruntling Things Up":

"good point anonimous, the chairs... did you see also how wide the chairs are in GA book? I can imagine the caricature of the Tapas 9 trying to acommodate 9/ 10 of these chairs around any round table ( no matter the size of the table). if they managed to squeeze the chairs one against the other, the all crew had to fly to get in to the chairs. so many things acquired a special gift that night to be able to fly, that Kate should be a beetle and Jane Tanner the luggage normally beetles carry on."

Posted by Anonymous to Textusa at Sep 22, 2012 10:01:00 AM

Look now at the distance between chairs 3 and 4:

Look at how evenly distributed are the chairs, and the distance between them, in a real table for 8 people: 

So why is chair 4 positioned in such a ridiculous way? 

Simple answer: to create a simple effect.

To give you the optical illusion that the table is bigger than it is. Logic dictates that chairs are set around a table according to the table's shape, right? So by setting the chairs in a linear way, it gives the illusion that the edge of the table follows that line, thus the "oval" perception.

Neat little trick, isn’t it? Those 2 chairs were placed there by Mr Brunt and his crew that way to deliberately deceive you.

And don't go saying that the chairs are set up like that because Mr. Brunt required the space to do his “Negligence Pirouette”. 

Allegedly Gerry McCann did the exact same pirouette on that exact same table when he had the conversation with Jez Wilkins on the night of May 2nd about the child checking system just when one had finished dinner and the other had just started...