Forrest Fenn Friday: Look Quickly Down = Look Under?

[Jenny]

In this episode of Forrest Fenn Friday we consider the idea that Look Quickly Down implies Look Under.

Blog: Forrest Fenn Friday: Look Quickly Down

Video:




What do you think look quickly down implies exactly? Or what might you look quickly down from?

[lookinup]

My feet are what I take from the 'looking down' mention. - A ledge.

[mikemarcum879]

Mar 30, 2018 9:53:53 GMT -5 Jenny said:

In this episode of Forrest Fenn Friday we consider the idea that Look Quickly Down implies Look Under.

Blog: Forrest Fenn Friday: Look Quickly Down

Video:




What do you think look quickly down implies exactly? Or what might you look quickly down from?

Let me see if I can explain myself.
Look quickly down would be as sone as I see the blaze within the 12ft I should come to a halt and start looking where I am standing.My quests to cease starts now but tarry scant tells me the the fastest way to tarry scant would be where you are standing with marvel gaze in beging in tight focus of your surrounding.

[rahrah]

I have to disagree - if it's implying 'look under', well then, what are you looking under?

[Jenny]

Mar 30, 2018 10:36:28 GMT -5 rahrah said:

I have to disagree - if it's implying 'look under', well then, what are you looking under?

We offer a thought on that in the video..and the blog... you could look under the 'blaze' (perhaps it is on a flat rock on the ground (and the chest is in a hole there?) --- or what ever else the blaze might be. No one KNOWS what the blaze is or they would have the chest.

It's a thought and could be correct. And yes, it could be wrong. I surely admit that. And respect everyone's thoughts and thank you for them.

Please know, I keep all reasonable options open (those that don't blatantly contradict what Forrest has stated). Obviously, and I say this in the previous video, even though I like the idea of 'looking under 'the blaze'...if I follow all the clues and find the blaze, and see something else that needs done, I won't complain.

I'm sure others who hate the above idea, but yet if they were to follow all the clues, find the blaze, and it suggests the possibility of 'looking under'-- I think they will...lol....


The more options the better.... I would hate for someone to be thinking so strongly that the 'blaze' or 'final location' of the chest must be 'as they think'--that they miss it or walk right by it, because they hadn't considered other options.

I've done this actually, in other hunts. And so from experience I know how easy it is to be set in a way, or thought, and realize after the fact it was wrong.

[mikemarcum879]

Mar 30, 2018 10:50:48 GMT -5 Jenny said:

Mar 30, 2018 10:36:28 GMT -5 rahrah said:

I have to disagree - if it's implying 'look under', well then, what are you looking under?

We offer a thought on that in the video..and the blog... you could look under the 'blaze' (perhaps it is on a flat rock on the ground (and the chest is in a hole there?) --- or what ever else the blaze might be. No one KNOWS what the blaze is or they would have the chest.

It's a thought and could be correct. And yes, it could be wrong. I surely admit that. And respect everyone's thoughts and thank you for them.

Please know, I keep all reasonable options open (those that don't blatantly contradict what Forrest has stated). Obviously, and I say this in the previous video, even though I like the idea of 'looking under 'the blaze'...if I follow all the clues and find the blaze, and see something else that needs done, I won't complain.

I'm sure others who hate the above idea, but yet if they were to follow all the clues, find the blaze, and it suggests the possibility of 'looking under'-- I think they will...lol....


The more options the better.... I would hate for someone to be thinking so strongly that the 'blaze' or 'final location' of the chest must be 'as they think'--that they miss it or walk right by it, because they hadn't considered other options.

I've done this actually, in other hunts. And so from experience I know how easy it is to be set in a way, or thought, and realize after the fact it was wrong.

In some case's I think when some one see a blaze they go right to it meaning right up on the blaze what did they just miss by doing this.

[Jenny]

Mar 30, 2018 10:50:48 GMT -5 Jenny said:

Mar 30, 2018 10:36:28 GMT -5 rahrah said:

I have to disagree - if it's implying 'look under', well then, what are you looking under?

We offer a thought on that in the video..and the blog... you could look under the 'blaze' (perhaps it is on a flat rock on the ground (and the chest is in a hole there?) --- or what ever else the blaze might be. No one KNOWS what the blaze is or they would have the chest.

It's a thought and could be correct. And yes, it could be wrong. I surely admit that. And respect everyone's thoughts and thank you for them.

Please know, I keep all reasonable options open (those that don't blatantly contradict what Forrest has stated). Obviously, and I say this in the previous video, even though I like the idea of 'looking under 'the blaze'...if I follow all the clues and find the blaze, and see something else that needs done, I won't complain.

I'm sure others who hate the above idea, but yet if they were to follow all the clues, find the blaze, and it suggests the possibility of 'looking under'-- I think they will...lol....


The more options the better.... I would hate for someone to be thinking so strongly that the 'blaze' or 'final location' of the chest must be 'as they think'--that they miss it or walk right by it, because they hadn't considered other options.

I've done this actually, in other hunts. And so from experience I know how easy it is to be set in a way, or thought, and realize after the fact it was wrong.

I just re-read that and it sounds a bit rash--- I was in a hurry-- still am---however, please know, I love all thoughts and appreciate each person's different opinions.

Have a great Easter everyone!

[rahrah]

Jenny, I do agree it is possible that it's accurate; however, given that we're supposed to be following the poem precisely, one must ask why at this point would it be left to chance we'll identify the blaze so we can look under it? To me - IMO - that makes little sense and is contrary to the idea that we'll have confidence going out to retrieve the chest. Now I don't have the chest, so what do I know?

To 'look quickly' = scan, survey, riffle, glance, give the once over, skim, sweep, pass, comb, etc.
'down' can be direction, under, emotion (sadness, blue, black), spent, guzzle, feather, alongside, out of order, done)<---can you see why I'm not convinced it's "under"?

The next part, 'your quest'....are those words to be considered together, or separately? Is it 'your', then 'quest' we're looking to understand and use, or 'your quest'?

Given the above, I'm left with it is unlikely that it is just 'look under' that Fenn is attempting to convey in the simple words of the poem.

[Jenny]

Mar 30, 2018 11:08:05 GMT -5 rahrah said:

Jenny, I do agree it is possible that it's accurate; however, given that we're supposed to be following the poem precisely, one must ask why at this point would it be left to chance we'll identify the blaze so we can look under it? To me - IMO - that makes little sense and is contrary to the idea that we'll have confidence going out to retrieve the chest. Now I don't have the chest, so what do I know?

To 'look quickly' = scan, survey, riffle, glance, give the once over, skim, sweep, pass, comb, etc.
'down' can be direction, under, emotion (sadness, blue, black), spent, guzzle, feather, alongside, out of order, done)<---can you see why I'm not convinced it's "under"?

The next part, 'your quest'....are those words to be considered together, or separately? Is it 'your', then 'quest' we're looking to understand and use, or 'your quest'?

Given the above, I'm left with it is unlikely that it is just 'look under' that Fenn is attempting to convey in the simple words of the poem.

Yes, I agree with that when taking it as 'look quickly' and then down. However, that is not how it might be. What if Forrest meant to do something else? What if it is look---and then to -at whatever Forrest meant or was directing to do, by using the words 'quickly down'. The key in this option is to understand quickly is describing 'down' (not how to look). We can't say for sure which it is and using proper grammar isn't his thing.

So for this example, what could 'quickly down' mean. Forget the look part at this point. Quickly down could be 'Under'. That is down quick or down 'very close'-- it's very close to it or it's quick to it (the Blaze). It's difficult to explain, but I can see Forrest doing this, and so have to keep it as an option.


I was writing about Riddles though when I created the video.... on an old 1910 game I have (will be posting soon on MW)--- so maybe that is why I'm questioning all obvious wordings of the puzzle right now....lol... It got me thinking of how or why Forrest said his poem was like a riddle (or something like that- paraphrase).

[robjohnson]

Mar 30, 2018 9:53:53 GMT -5 Jenny said:

In this episode of Forrest Fenn Friday we consider the idea that Look Quickly Down implies Look Under.

Blog: Forrest Fenn Friday: Look Quickly Down

Video:




What do you think look quickly down implies exactly? Or what might you look quickly down from?

How about this thinking, all IMO?

Page 91 ttotc - "Helicopters make a lot of noise so we agreed to stay only five minutes."

Page 94 ttotc - "I had to hurry." In other words, look quickly. Followed by the gravestone marker words.

Page 94 ttotc - "Those words burned in my brain and I can see them just as clearly now as I did then, when I was so rushed."

So my gift to the chase is that "Look quickly down is less than five minutes." Now, marry that to the poem.

I really like the idea that the chest might be obscured by an overhanging ledge (on a banco?) or stone covering the spot.

[Deleted]

It seems to me that each line has three meanings or directives and these three meanings meld into one to aid you in the quest. It could mean that you also look quickly down the poem to get an answer. Look quickly down your quest two C's. The line with two C's is: Just take the Chest and go in PeaCe. Chest piece? Heart? Dear to me? Poker Poem?

[deeepthkr]

Without previous clues it won't make since. It's in Colorado. Look up the root of words in an Etymology Dictionary that has *kel-. Colorado, words that mean hidden, secret, listen quietly, etc. You'll see how it is key. Follow poem from there. Alba is one of these. Many others.

[deeepthkr]

More homework: read up on euphemisms, Caliology(bird nests), collonade(architecture), ambiguous statements, Alba(Brown and bright), clepere(listen secretly), celare(cellar, conceal), on and on. Colophon also and don't need to explain that one.

[timw]

Has good possibilities. I have also considered. Look then quick lie down.

[rahrah]

Mar 30, 2018 11:45:21 GMT -5 Jenny said:

Mar 30, 2018 11:08:05 GMT -5 rahrah said:

Jenny, I do agree it is possible that it's accurate; however, given that we're supposed to be following the poem precisely, one must ask why at this point would it be left to chance we'll identify the blaze so we can look under it? To me - IMO - that makes little sense and is contrary to the idea that we'll have confidence going out to retrieve the chest. Now I don't have the chest, so what do I know?

To 'look quickly' = scan, survey, riffle, glance, give the once over, skim, sweep, pass, comb, etc.
'down' can be direction, under, emotion (sadness, blue, black), spent, guzzle, feather, alongside, out of order, done)<---can you see why I'm not convinced it's "under"?

The next part, 'your quest'....are those words to be considered together, or separately? Is it 'your', then 'quest' we're looking to understand and use, or 'your quest'?

Given the above, I'm left with it is unlikely that it is just 'look under' that Fenn is attempting to convey in the simple words of the poem.

Yes, I agree with that when taking it as 'look quickly' and then down. However, that is not how it might be. What if Forrest meant to do something else? What if it is look---and then to -at whatever Forrest meant or was directing to do, by using the words 'quickly down'. The key in this option is to understand quickly is describing 'down' (not how to look). We can't say for sure which it is and using proper grammar isn't his thing.

So for this example, what could 'quickly down' mean. Forget the look part at this point. Quickly down could be 'Under'. That is down quick or down 'very close'-- it's very close to it or it's quick to it (the Blaze). It's difficult to explain, but I can see Forrest doing this, and so have to keep it as an option.


I was writing about Riddles though when I created the video.... on an old 1910 game I have (will be posting soon on MW)--- so maybe that is why I'm questioning all obvious wordings of the puzzle right now....lol... It got me thinking of how or why Forrest said his poem was like a riddle (or something like that- paraphrase).

"quickly down' is fun too - crash, collapse, meltdown, bad news, in no time, slide, tragedy, cataclysm, etc.!