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Post by Jenny on Apr 21, 2020 8:35:55 GMT -5
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Post by Jenny on Apr 21, 2020 9:16:54 GMT -5
What is most curious to me is the fact they are not in Once Upon A While (first edition), and then ONLY ONE in the revised Once Upon A While, unlike the Double Omegas in Seventeen Dollars a Square Inch, The Thrill of the Chase, and Too Far to Walk...... Why only one? Forrest had to know by that book's publishing it would ignite searchers questions! lol... and maybe that is the only reason?  |
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Post by thetreasurehunter on Apr 21, 2020 11:25:10 GMT -5
One of my thoughts is it is the blaze. It marks the end of the Chase, like in the book.
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Post by earthshaker42 on Apr 21, 2020 12:07:17 GMT -5
I thought he said he would go to the grave with that information? Add to it that they show up before TOTC makes it hard, in my mind, to make them part of the chase. That said, if they have deep meaning to him, then it would not be unreasonable to have them show up in the chase just to keep them close. In my solve I can see them reflected in the blaze. But as so much of what we want to be true becomes true only in our minds, I am happy to just see them and let the blaze be enough without imposing omegas.
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Post by Jenny on Apr 21, 2020 15:08:08 GMT -5
Yes, in Scrapbook 50, Forrest says:
“The relevance of the double omegas will go to the grave with the man who wrote the poem.”
TheTreasureHunter- I like the idea of it being the possible Blaze, and how if they are at the end of the Chase (book), they might mark the end of the Chase.....
It's possible the finder will learn their meaning...and it is part of the story...
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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 21, 2020 20:08:06 GMT -5
It's still rather interesting to me that the only time Forrest added omegas in a Scrapbook was Diggin Gypsy's SB 50.
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Post by earthshaker42 on Apr 22, 2020 8:57:01 GMT -5
It's still rather interesting to me that the only time Forrest added omegas in a Scrapbook was Diggin Gypsy's SB 50. Nice! I didn't know this. I had not really wanted to venture into the scrapbooks. I always felt that too much information would cloud my view of things. Oddly that SB fits my solve. But again I think most of my thinking along those lines is my mind enjoying a healthy dose of confirmation basis. |
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Post by voxpops on Apr 23, 2020 4:12:09 GMT -5
Yes, in Scrapbook 50, Forrest says: “The relevance of the double omegas will go to the grave with the man who wrote the poem.”TheTreasureHunter- I like the idea of it being the possible Blaze, and how if they are at the end of the Chase (book), they might mark the end of the Chase..... It's possible the finder will learn their meaning...and it is part of the story... I think they mark the two ends, which I posted about in the TFTW-riddle thread. IMO, FF knew that out of the thousands of WWWH it was unlikely that most people would find the correct one, and yet he expected someone to be able to find the treasure chest location. That is where the mystery lies. So you find the end, not knowing the beginning, and then you find the true beginning, which is also the second end. (When OUAW Ed.2 was published, it's possible only one end had been, or was about to be, discovered.) The obvious question then arises: if you know the chest's location, why do you need the beginning? IMO, it is to fulfill the purpose of the chase. I also believe that you will not be able to physically retrieve the chest before completing the task. Remember that FF said it was "impossible" for him to go back now. “The relevance of the double omegas will go to the grave with the man who wrote the poem.” The natural tendency is to read the above quote using convention-based assumptions. If, instead, you read it without assuming that it is Forrest who will take the relevance of the omegas to the grave, but substitute the finder, you get a subtle shift: "The relevance of the double omegas will go [with the finder] to the grave [that is filled] with the man who wrote the poem." That presupposes that the finder will visit the grave of the man who wrote the poem. And that opens a whole new can of worms that only deepens the mystery. A number of possibilities flow from this notion, one or two of which are mind-boggling. “If you are in the right spot, something you probably haven’t thought about, should be obvious to you.” Does this quotation relate to the same concept? I have no idea, but there's probably something unusual, besides the chest, that will confront the eventual finder. |
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Post by thetreasurehunter on Apr 23, 2020 19:41:43 GMT -5
Nice to have this information. If the omega symbols are a hint then Eric Sloane may have known the spot.
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