i swear i posted my response already, but i thought of something else.
two things, in andrej's response to my post above, he says something about 49 letters. spaces != letters, i think he would have said characters otherwise.
secondly, i think the last hint means the lines are backwards, not the characters within the lines. meaning
1234567
89ABCDE
becomes
89ABCDE
1234567
NOT
7654321
EDCBA98
as for the first letter, the only time i've seen E used as a single word is E Pluribus Unim. i'm thinking the first letter is more likely O as in olde english synonim for Oh. i think.
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