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Post by kaotkbliss on Sept 20, 2019 20:51:50 GMT -5
I'll list my possible ideas on Too Far To Walk which are all theoretical: 5- CROSSING A STREET: This goes back to the biddies chapter where a hint could be the old biddies laughing and saying that Forrest (as a boy) wasn't allowed to walk across the street. There....might be more, but those are the ones off the top of my head Something I just rolled around in my mind about this one. What if HOB and too far to walk were the same location? If no place for biddies references too far to walk (the street in the story, or maybe in this case an area that is off-limits), maybe he's saying that HOB is not far but too far to walk. Not far, but too far to walk. Put in below the home of Brown. Since you are not allowed to actually go to HOB, go below it or just south of it.
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Post by davebakedpotato on Sept 21, 2019 1:09:08 GMT -5
Hi Jenny, Forrest says "The poem is straight forward with no subterfuge in sight." The preface to the book "too far to walk" suggests that this is ten miles. Why would we doubt this? - If there's no subterfuge at all, the first person to read the poem would have gone and got the treasure. Maybe the subterfuge is out of sight. - If TFTW contains a vital distance clue, what would have happened if Forrest had passed away before publishing it? - Have you ever walked 10 miles? Some people run 26 miles for fun.
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Post by Jenny on Sept 21, 2019 6:36:34 GMT -5
I take Forrest's use of subterfuge to say there isn't any intentional deceit.... like how red herrings are deliberately placed in armchair treasure hunts.
However, that is not to say we can't create our own red herrings.....by misunderstandings....
In the preface, too far to walk is suggested as 10 miles.... is it the same in the poem? Maybe...but if 10 miles is too far to walk, so might 20 miles....or maybe just 5....or we just can't say for sure without the poem.
It is a curious thing that Forrest named the book 'too far to walk' and then gives that example.... I wonder why.....would he really give an answer for a piece of the poem, or is there something we are missing?
maybe it is more why is it too far to walk? or something.....maybe he was trying to hint at its deeper meaning....and not a precise distance.....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2019 7:43:14 GMT -5
I take Forrest's use of subterfuge to say there isn't any intentional deceit.... like how red herrings are deliberately placed in armchair treasure hunts. However, that is not to say we can't create our own red herrings.....by misunderstandings.... In the preface, too far to walk is suggested as 10 miles.... is it the same in the poem? Maybe...but if 10 miles is too far to walk, so might 20 miles....or maybe just 5....or we just can't say for sure without the poem. It is a curious thing that Forrest named the book 'too far to walk' and then gives that example.... I wonder why.....would he really give an answer for a piece of the poem, or is there something we are missing? maybe it is more why is it too far to walk? or something.....maybe he was trying to hint at its deeper meaning....and not a precise distance..... In my comment I meant to emphasize the "straight forward" part and not the subterfuge part. I think that Forrests hints/comments are much more straight forward than we realize. I interpret too far walk as the ten miles and believe that the preface to the book is one of the strongest hints that Forrest has given. My definition of that distance does not matter - only Forrest's definition does. He has told us what that is. This would mean that HOB/put-in is something more than ten miles from entering the canyon.
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Post by kk on Sept 22, 2019 15:23:31 GMT -5
We know the example FF gave was in regard to the the Madison River and a length of 10 miles. I look at it like this:
The name Madison is connected to the name Maud. The name Maud is connected to the name Matilda. Matilda is Australian slang for "a traveler's bundle or swag," hence the expression "Waltzing Matilda," "to travel on foot."
One definition of the word walk is "to travel on foot."
So we seem to have dual confirmation in the poem and in the book that "too far to walk" is with regard to traveling on foot.
So via etymology:
Not = In no way far = remote, distant but = unless, with the exception of too = in excess, in addition far = distant to = to walk = to travel on foot
Not far but too far to walk = In no way remote with the exception of in excess distance to travel on foot.
It seems clear cut to me.
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Post by sparrow on Sept 22, 2019 16:01:32 GMT -5
Jenny—-
I wasn’t sure where to post. Do you allow a little humor on your Blog? I don’t know why but every time I joke around a bit (not in a nasty or mean way at all) I get put into “moderation” on Dal’s blog. This time they won’t even post anything of mine. If I was using bad language or insulting someone I could understand. But I am really tired of this. I have been sharing for over three years. I don’t post very often on your board but I am thinking of concentrating far more on your blog. I just don’t understand how they decide who gets moderated over there. Some interesting people have left that board for the same reason.
Im just frustrated and venting.
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Post by heidini on Sept 22, 2019 16:50:01 GMT -5
Jenny—- I wasn’t sure where to post. Do you allow a little humor on your Blog? I don’t know why but every time I joke around a bit (not in a nasty or mean way at all) I get put into “moderation” on Dal’s blog. This time they won’t even post anything of mine. If I was using bad language or insulting someone I could understand. But I am really tired of this. I have been sharing for over three years. I don’t post very often on your board but I am thinking of concentrating far more on your blog. I just don’t understand how they decide who gets moderated over there. Some interesting people have left that board for the same reason. Im just frustrated and venting. Jenny has said to keep posts directly related to forrest fenn’s treasure. If your humor is related to an ff topic/ thread then it should be ok if like you said: (not in a nasty or mean way at all)
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Post by sparrow on Sept 22, 2019 18:54:49 GMT -5
Heidini---
Thanks!
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Post by drpepperwood on Sept 23, 2019 1:39:08 GMT -5
Park closer because it's to far too walk.
I was on vacation with my sister driving down a street (down a ...just had to add that in. Meaning of down) looking for a parking spot (that special spot) so we wouldn't have to walk to far to the beach. Found a spot comfortable enough to walk.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Sept 24, 2019 13:39:24 GMT -5
Park closer because it's to far too walk. I was on vacation with my sister driving down a street (down a ...just had to add that in. Meaning of down) looking for a parking spot (that special spot) so we wouldn't have to walk to far to the beach. Found a spot comfortable enough to walk. I concur. I think searchers are overthinking this. If you've got a car, and you're hauling a couple 25-lb bags of dog food back from Petsmart, do you park in the garage and walk them 20 feet, or down the block and walk 200 feet? Neither distance is "too far to walk," but only one alternative makes logical sense.
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Post by davebakedpotato on Sept 24, 2019 13:52:11 GMT -5
Park closer because it's to far too walk. I was on vacation with my sister driving down a street (down a ...just had to add that in. Meaning of down) looking for a parking spot (that special spot) so we wouldn't have to walk to far to the beach. Found a spot comfortable enough to walk. I concur. I think searchers are overthinking this. If you've got a car, and you're hauling a couple 25-lb bags of dog food back from Petsmart, do you park in the garage and walk them 20 feet, or down the block and walk 200 feet? Neither distance is "too far to walk," but only one alternative makes logical sense. Yep. You could make a case if he had help, but we know specifically that he didn't.
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Post by richard on Sept 24, 2019 14:18:47 GMT -5
I think it is a concept in Forrest's estimation of what is too far. It could just be too far for an 80 year old man,(him).
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Post by richard on Sept 24, 2019 14:23:12 GMT -5
I think it is a concept in Forrest's estimation of what is too far. It could just be too far for an 80 year old man,(him). Or it could be a suggestion of a longer distance that is literally Too Far, and that you must take a alternative mode of transportation to arrive at the point you need to get to. Remember Forrest stated, if you are walking long distances then you are walking too far.
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Post by kaotkbliss on Sept 25, 2019 5:39:30 GMT -5
I've taken the line to mean a nearly completed but failed or impossible task, something that's not finished. Like the saying "Close, but not quite."
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Post by Jenny on Sept 26, 2019 12:11:52 GMT -5
Forrest is the one talking.... As I have gone alone in there.....
so 'not far, but too far to walk' very well could be a distance that 'could' be walked (it's not far), but it is too far for him to walk with the chest and for his age... sort of what he was saying in the preface of his book 'too far to walk'. He used to be able to do it...but now he can't....it is too far (not that it is far).
The importance of the preface isn't so much the distance of 10 miles, but the concept behind it.....
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