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Post by zaphod73491 on Jun 30, 2017 14:19:08 GMT -5
How about all the references to blossom?
TTOTC pg. 57: "...plucked from life at the moment of his greatest blossom"
TTOTC pg. 87: "I took pictures of the blossomed parachute"
TFTW pg. 255: "in the blossom of my youth"
Scrapbook 36: "...she dares the rhododendron to match her blossom."
Scrapbook 83: "moment of his greatest blossom"
Scrapbook 166: "I think the blossoms starting falling..."
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Post by heidini on Jun 30, 2017 16:32:56 GMT -5
How about all the references to blossom? TTOTC pg. 57: "...plucked from life at the moment of his greatest blossom" TTOTC pg. 87: "I took pictures of the blossomed parachute" TFTW pg. 255: "in the blossom of my youth" Scrapbook 36: "...she dares the rhododendron to match her blossom." Scrapbook 83: "moment of his greatest blossom" Scrapbook 166: "I think the blossoms starting falling..." I looked up blossom. I saw the word flourish. And it reminded me of another scrapbook of Doug Hyde in full Flourish. If you look up multiple meanings of the word Flourish, all of the antonyms are the same. The antonym for Flourish is decline. So In a way blossom or Flourish can mean incline? dalneitzel.com/tag/doug-hyde/ |
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Post by rahrah on Jun 30, 2017 17:47:48 GMT -5
How about all the references to blossom? TTOTC pg. 57: "...plucked from life at the moment of his greatest blossom" TTOTC pg. 87: "I took pictures of the blossomed parachute" TFTW pg. 255: "in the blossom of my youth" Scrapbook 36: "...she dares the rhododendron to match her blossom." Scrapbook 83: "moment of his greatest blossom" Scrapbook 166: "I think the blossoms starting falling..." I looked up blossom. I saw the word flourish. And it reminded me of another scrapbook of Doug Hyde in full Flourish. If you look up multiple meanings of the word Flourish, all of the antonyms are the same. The antonym for Flourish is decline. So In a way blossom or Flourish can mean incline? dalneitzel.com/tag/doug-hyde/As you go through these words, don't assume something like incline would apply because the antonym for flourish is decline....you need to wade thorough the synonyms of incline to see if you find flourish or blossom. Flourish and blossom though have much more interesting synonyms with regard to Fenn and the poem.....arrive, make it, exaggerate (biddies), glory, talk big, spurt (erupt from inside), cackle, front (chest), blaze, display, bare (bald), unmask, emblazon, reveal, twist, etc. The thing I've realized in going through various ways to look at synonyms is that words have what are called "senses" - words that tie a group of synonyms together, for example, in flourish, there is a "sense" with the word "flash" and the synonyms bolt, brandish, dart, disport, exhibit, expose, flaunt, flit, flourish, fly, parade, race, shoot, show, show off, speed, spring, streak, sweep, trot out, whistle, zoom. From those words, all the ones I've bolded, Fenn has used them or their synoyms, multiple times. What it means, I'm not 100% on, just that Fenn tends to use a "sense" word set frequently and I think - I could be wrong - that within the "sense" there is a word or words that he does NOT use that is important in the solve. I have a few instances of such in my solve, but who knows? And there is a synonym in both flourish and blossom that is in my solve that I didn't realize until I started looking up some of them from this thread! |
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Post by cowlazars on Aug 24, 2017 17:24:26 GMT -5
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Post by Drifter on Sept 8, 2017 3:32:40 GMT -5
... "hints in The Thrill of the Chase" ...?
Yeah, but how do you determine what's a hint? Insofar as "hints" are concerned, the book is a veritable rabbit hole.
Coincidences? Yes, they're everywhere.
Searchers see what they wanna see. They can't make heads or tails out of the poem. So they look everywhere else for "hints", and not just the book, but also those useless scrapbooks, his verbal comments, and various videos. Almost always what they see as a "hint" is nothing more than confirmation bias for their own predetermined solution.
... all a distraction from the only real source of information ... the poem.
Drifter
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