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Post by Bownarrow on Aug 6, 2019 9:53:43 GMT -5
"Taking a magnifying glass to the text, Newbold noticed strange irregularities at the edges of the letters. He believed the tiny lines were Greek shorthand—and that each letter contained as many as 10 of them"
"Irregularities at the edges" brings to mind ff's "aberrations".
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 6, 2019 11:36:27 GMT -5
I've always thought it ironic that the Aberrations folder on Dal's is spelled Abberrations. I wonder if that was deliberate on Forrest's part, or was it Dal's?
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Post by heidini on Aug 6, 2019 21:08:55 GMT -5
I've always thought it ironic that the Aberrations folder on Dal's is spelled Abberrations. I wonder if that was deliberate on Forrest's part, or was it Dal's? That is so funny. I am sure there is some irony in the spelling. I hope it was deliberate because it is a tiny bit of awesomeness.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 7, 2019 0:07:35 GMT -5
Heidini: me too! "Knowlege" and "proximaty" advise my theories. ;-)
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Post by davebakedpotato on Aug 7, 2019 17:07:09 GMT -5
If 'get back in the box' is a clue, and it might be, then it suffers the same problem as the poem. I call it the 'ubiquitous language' problem. It's a common phrase made up of common words, so if you have no real solution it's of little help, and if you have developed a solution you'll find a way to make it fit: Aha! My search state is box-shaped. Aha! My solution takes me past a cemetary. Aha! He's referring to the chest, who's name is key in my solution.
Etc.
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Post by davebakedpotato on Aug 7, 2019 17:08:43 GMT -5
By extension it seems wise to pay attention to the non-ubiquitous words in the poem...
I'll halt there.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2019 18:59:49 GMT -5
By extension it seems wise to pay attention to the non-ubiquitous words in the poem... I'll halt there. I see what you did there.
- Ray
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Post by Bownarrow on Aug 8, 2019 5:36:36 GMT -5
Why is the text of the autobiography in the chest printed in letters so small a magnifying glass is needed to read it?
A synonym of "autobiography" is "memoir".
TTOTC is called "a memoir".
Does this mean that a miniature version of TTOTC is in a small olive jar in the chest?
If so, again why?
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Post by davebakedpotato on Aug 8, 2019 6:32:52 GMT -5
Why is the text of the autobiography in the chest printed in letters so small a magnifying glass is needed to read it?
A synonym of "autobiography" is "memoir".
TTOTC is called "a memoir".
Does this mean that a miniature version of TTOTC is in a small olive jar in the chest?
If so, again why?
I always thought it was a different document, but I don't have any evidence for that assumption other than Forrest could have said 'a copy of TTOTC' but didn't . I guess we can check by counting the words in TTOTC and see if there are around 20k. As to why, in a word 'posterity'.
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Post by Bownarrow on Aug 8, 2019 8:00:18 GMT -5
A synonym of "autobiography" is "memoir".
TTOTC is called "a memoir".
Does this mean that a miniature version of TTOTC is in a small olive jar in the chest?
If so, again why?
I always thought it was a different document, but I don't have any evidence for that assumption other than Forrest could have said 'a copy of TTOTC' but didn't . I guess we can check by counting the words in TTOTC and see if there are around 20k. As to why, in a word 'posterity'. I had thought that it was a different document as well, but the idea that autobiography = memoir = TTOTC makes me wonder.
I like the idea of counting the words. Didn't someone say they had converted the text into a pdf document or something? Maybe whoever that was could tell us how many words there are in TTOTC. Was that you Z ?
For "posterity's" sake seems to be the obvious answer, but I have a gut feeling that there is more to it than just that.
A miniature version of TTOTC with letters so small a magnifying glass is needed to read them = microfiche version?
Microfiche = anagram of "come rich if"
I guess the next question is "Come rich if" ... what?
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Post by heidini on Aug 8, 2019 19:51:13 GMT -5
Heidini: me too! "Knowlege" and "proximaty" advise my theories. ;-) mine, too! I bet the words “advise” us in entirely different ways. 😉
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 8, 2019 20:33:11 GMT -5
Heidini: undoubtedly. Forrest puts out conundrums and aberrations with abandon, probably knowing it will drive searchers crazy and send them in a hundred different directions. Recall Forrest's little trick of deliberately saying something wrong when conversing with old Native Americans as a clever means of drawing them out. Forrest seems to be doing the same with us: screwing up the Hemingway novels, suggesting Robert Redford has never written a book, altering song lyrics and bumper sticker quotes, subtlely changing poems and famous sayings, and misspelling the names of at least a dozen different prominent people. Could it all just be marketing buzz?
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Post by johnedo on Aug 9, 2019 7:36:11 GMT -5
Heidini: undoubtedly. Forrest puts out conundrums and aberrations with abandon, probably knowing it will drive searchers crazy and send them in a hundred different directions. Recall Forrest's little trick of deliberately saying something wrong when conversing with old Native Americans as a clever means of drawing them out. Forrest seems to be doing the same with us: screwing up the Hemingway novels, suggesting Robert Redford has never written a book, altering song lyrics and bumper sticker quotes, subtlely changing poems and famous sayings, and misspelling the names of at least a dozen different prominent people. Could it all just be marketing buzz? Zap to be in the middle is both right and wrong!
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Post by zaphod73491 on Aug 9, 2019 13:43:28 GMT -5
Hi Johnedo: sort of like shaking your head yes and no at the same time. ;-)
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Post by omni on Aug 9, 2019 14:22:38 GMT -5
Having read some of the wild solves that are out there, I think his statement was simply telling people to keep things simple...again. The longer the chase goes on, the more people think some wildly imaginative solve is what is needed and it's just that no one has thought of it yet. That's not the case.
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