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Post by drpepperwood on Dec 11, 2018 8:00:41 GMT -5
“If it comes back, I’m going to grab a pocketful of sleeping pills, take a treasure chest filled with treasure and a copy of my bio; and I’m going to walk out into the desert. Sometime they’ll find my bones and the treasure, but my bio will be inside the box, so at least they’ll know who I was.”
“There are 654,885,389 acres of land in the United States that are owned by the American people. That is what the federal government admits is “public property.” And the population of this great country is 313,914,040. After doing the math I learn that my allotment is exactly 2.086 acres. Now, what if I wanted to secret a can of Dr. Pepper under a rock in the cooling waters of a rivulet somewhere in my allotted public acreage?”
“There’s no place that you can put a treasure that under the right circumstances, there are no complications.”
“I could worry about it if I wanted to but I don’t want to.”
“There are so many bits of history that I would like to find: a Clovis point between the ribs of a Mammoth, a letter written by my father to my mother before they were married, a special fishing spot on the Madison River that no one alive knows about but me.”
“Many are giving serious thought to the clues in my poem, but only a few are in tight focus with a word that is key. The treasure may be discovered sooner than I anticipated.”
The last quote. Does that mean the word that is key is in the poem?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2018 10:11:37 GMT -5
“If it comes back, I’m going to grab a pocketful of sleeping pills, take a treasure chest filled with treasure and a copy of my bio; and I’m going to walk out into the desert. Sometime they’ll find my bones and the treasure, but my bio will be inside the box, so at least they’ll know who I was.” “There are 654,885,389 acres of land in the United States that are owned by the American people. That is what the federal government admits is “public property.” And the population of this great country is 313,914,040. After doing the math I learn that my allotment is exactly 2.086 acres. Now, what if I wanted to secret a can of Dr. Pepper under a rock in the cooling waters of a rivulet somewhere in my allotted public acreage?” “There’s no place that you can put a treasure that under the right circumstances, there are no complications.” “I could worry about it if I wanted to but I don’t want to.” “There are so many bits of history that I would like to find: a Clovis point between the ribs of a Mammoth, a letter written by my father to my mother before they were married, a special fishing spot on the Madison River that no one alive knows about but me.” “Many are giving serious thought to the clues in my poem, but only a few are in tight focus with a word that is key. The treasure may be discovered sooner than I anticipated.” The last quote. Does that mean the word that is key is in the poem? Hmmm. Take a treasure chest filled with treasure. Don't you notice ff said treasure. But in the poem he says" treasures." Meaning more then 1 treasure. |
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Post by npsbuilder on Dec 13, 2018 1:59:06 GMT -5
On Old Santa Fe's resource page there is a link to Scientific American. The link takes you to a story about Mark Twain and his fossil hunting days. Towards the end of the story, the way I read it, it gives narrower focus on how to think and approach deciphering the poem. Give it a read and also go to Project Gutenberg and look up the Scientific American published 1 January 1870. I'm curious if you see it the way I read it.
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Post by heidini on Dec 13, 2018 5:46:31 GMT -5
On Old Santa Fe's resource page there is a link to Scientific American. The link takes you to a story about Mark Twain and his fossil hunting days. Towards the end of the story, the way I read it, it gives narrower focus on how to think and approach deciphering the poem. Give it a read and also go to Project Gutenberg and look up the Scientific American published 1 January 1870. I'm curious if you see it the way I read it. If you are referring to a link, it’s way easier to follow what you’re saying if you post the link with your statement. |
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Post by astree on Dec 13, 2018 6:42:32 GMT -5
Hmmm. Take a treasure chest filled with treasure. Don't you notice ff said treasure. But in the poem he says" treasures." Meaning more then 1 treasure. Mike, I for one believe that working with the poem leads one to conclude that there is more than one treasure (chest). And that at least one of them is wet. This should be known without any additional comments from Forrest, just using the poem. IMO. And Forrest is able to employ this ambiguity in confusing statements. Lookcgud, astree |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 7:16:37 GMT -5
Hmmm. Take a treasure chest filled with treasure. Don't you notice ff said treasure. But in the poem he says" treasures." Meaning more then 1 treasure. Mike, I for one believe that working with the poem leads one to conclude that there is more than one treasure (chest). And that at least one of them is wet. This should be known without any additional comments from Forrest, just using the poem. IMO. And Forrest is able to employ this ambiguity in confusing statements. Lookcgud, astree How I look at it Forrest can cast a brozes bell. Then Forrest can cast a bronze chest.. Forrest has the blue print the tc. |
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Post by van on Dec 13, 2018 17:20:20 GMT -5
I think the word that is key is in the poem. It either refers to the location of WWWH or HOB. Tight focus = stare = gaze, maybe. Since you put in below the HOB, maybe HOB is a place that overlooks an area where people would gaze. Does anyone have a solve that involves an overlook with "Brown" in the title?
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Post by npsbuilder on Dec 14, 2018 18:59:14 GMT -5
On Old Santa Fe's resource page there is a link to Scientific American. The link takes you to a story about Mark Twain and his fossil hunting days. Towards the end of the story, the way I read it, it gives narrower focus on how to think and approach deciphering the poem. Give it a read and also go to Project Gutenberg and look up the Scientific American published 1 January 1870. I'm curious if you see it the way I read it. If you are referring to a link, it’s way easier to follow what you’re saying if you post the link with your statement. |
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Post by npsbuilder on Dec 14, 2018 19:19:58 GMT -5
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/013429db-e7f2-99df-341402c912a40d31/Sorry about that heidini. The link I was referring to is above for the story "Mark Twain: Fossil Hunter and Science Writer". The reason for the post in this thread goes to how ff uses stats and such to make some kind of point to what it is he is talking about at the time. For example, what he says about acres of land public and private in the original post of this thread. Another example would be the one he used for the description of 8.25 miles. There are many other examples of his use of specific details to make a point.
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Post by npsbuilder on Dec 14, 2018 19:53:30 GMT -5
www.gutenberg.org/files/8952/8952-h/8952-h.htm#56 After you have read the story "Mark Twain:..." go to this link to read "Putting up Stoves" by Mark Twain published in the 1 January 1870 Scientific American. The link above is to The Project Gutenberg where you can find this edition in its entirety. Here you can find all sorts of books, magazines and other items that have been published years ago. For years I subscribed to Popular Science and love to go back through the old editions; Project Gutenberg is now MY FAVORITE resource for my Science quick fix. "Putting up Stoves" IMO tells us what ff is referring to for HOB and WWWH. Don't stop reading when you are done with "Putting up Stoves". Once again IMO, the other articles in this edition works for many of the other lines in the poem. The stacks of papers from my research over the last couple of months has been tossed in the round filing cabinet.
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