Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2019 8:29:22 GMT -5
There are three separate clues indicating that we should a rose or something rose-colored.
The most straightforward is on page 17. A line drawn through the croquet mallet lying on the grass intersects the rose bud at the old man's left elbow, and there is another rose on the adjacent tea pot.
The next is on page 30. We are instructed to circle the globe. Starting with the R in the word DOOR, if you travel counterclockwise and pick off the letters that start and end the top and bottom lines of the border words, you get, in order, ROSE. We are also directed to STEP INSIDE. As pointed out in an earlier post, the middle letters inside the border words at the bottom spell PI. PI shows up with some frequency and may correspond to the half-rotation the colored border makes from one picture to the next. Interestingly, if we gather the inner letters from the top border words, ...EN THE D...., we get THE END.
The last one, and the most striking, was recently provided to me by thisjustin. I reviewed it carefully and I get the same result.
At the beginning the book, we are instructed to see how many keys we can find in the illustrations. A specific subset of these keys are golden, and, after all, it's the Golden Key we are after. Now apply a Masquerade-like process to each golden key: draw a line from the center of the circle through the tip of the last tine (In thisjustin's vernacular, "eye-to-nose") and pick out the corresponding letter from the border words. This yields, in page order, O-E-R-S-I-S-Q.
The first four letters anagram to ROSE. The last three letters can be arranged to yield I SQ ROSE or I SEEK ROSE.
The fact that the Stockwells seem to have gone to the trouble to include these clues, and, in particular, the last one, tells me that, at the end of our search, we should be looking for a rose, or something rose-colored.
This also would fit with the last line of the Riddle, WE SPY A PINK POSY.
As both I and thisjustin have noted, there is indeed a framed picture of a pink posy at Leary's but, unfortunately, it is securely bolted to the wall.
The most straightforward is on page 17. A line drawn through the croquet mallet lying on the grass intersects the rose bud at the old man's left elbow, and there is another rose on the adjacent tea pot.
The next is on page 30. We are instructed to circle the globe. Starting with the R in the word DOOR, if you travel counterclockwise and pick off the letters that start and end the top and bottom lines of the border words, you get, in order, ROSE. We are also directed to STEP INSIDE. As pointed out in an earlier post, the middle letters inside the border words at the bottom spell PI. PI shows up with some frequency and may correspond to the half-rotation the colored border makes from one picture to the next. Interestingly, if we gather the inner letters from the top border words, ...EN THE D...., we get THE END.
The last one, and the most striking, was recently provided to me by thisjustin. I reviewed it carefully and I get the same result.
At the beginning the book, we are instructed to see how many keys we can find in the illustrations. A specific subset of these keys are golden, and, after all, it's the Golden Key we are after. Now apply a Masquerade-like process to each golden key: draw a line from the center of the circle through the tip of the last tine (In thisjustin's vernacular, "eye-to-nose") and pick out the corresponding letter from the border words. This yields, in page order, O-E-R-S-I-S-Q.
The first four letters anagram to ROSE. The last three letters can be arranged to yield I SQ ROSE or I SEEK ROSE.
The fact that the Stockwells seem to have gone to the trouble to include these clues, and, in particular, the last one, tells me that, at the end of our search, we should be looking for a rose, or something rose-colored.
This also would fit with the last line of the Riddle, WE SPY A PINK POSY.
As both I and thisjustin have noted, there is indeed a framed picture of a pink posy at Leary's but, unfortunately, it is securely bolted to the wall.
