The poem is the map

[bitbucket]

What if you did away with reading/interpreting the poem altogether? Instead, view the letters as a child might...as a collection of lines, curves, and squiggles. Could these serve as a 'map' of sort.

Perhaps if they were condensed (space removed from between the characters)?

[voxpops]

Jan 3, 2020 21:13:16 GMT -5 bitbucket said:

What if you did away with reading/interpreting the poem altogether? Instead, view the letters as a child might...as a collection of lines, curves, and squiggles. Could these serve as a 'map' of sort.

Perhaps if they were condensed (space removed from between the characters)?

I think it might be better to think of the poem as an alchemy recipe - one for transforming base metal into gold. But for that you need the words, not just lines and squiggles. Beyond that, I believe the poem can be viewed as a literal map of sorts if you view the relationship between the various parts.

[astree]

Jan 3, 2020 21:13:16 GMT -5 bitbucket said:

What if you did away with reading/interpreting the poem altogether? Instead, view the letters as a child might...as a collection of lines, curves, and squiggles. Could these serve as a 'map' of sort.

Perhaps if they were condensed (space removed from between the characters)?

I think this is an interesting idea.  How would you decide which letters to use ?

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Hi Fenn,

I’ve read your wonderful books and they didn’t help me one iota. The poem with your precious 9 clues is ambiguous, which means absolutely worthless in my opinion. I don’t think the bronze box can be found using the information that is currently available. I have arm chaired this thing to death. Why don’t you give me something I can chew on?

Thanks for nothing, Outta Here


Well Mr. Outta There, I will give you something to chomp on.

Stop arm chairing that thing to death and get out in the trees where the “box” is, but before you go, look at the poem as if it were a map, because it is, and like any other map, it will show you where to go if you follow its directions. f

( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Etymology )