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Post by Jenny on Apr 26, 2020 19:05:27 GMT -5
Dal had posted his thoughts about Contiguous.... but much is about why he feels some locations might not work.... what are thoughts about hints in the book identifying WWWH? Must it? dalneitzel.com/2020/04/25/contiguous/ |
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Post by me9 on Apr 26, 2020 19:15:18 GMT -5
Moby Dickens Bookshop
Forrest, did you have nine clues before you wrote the poem? Or did nine clues appear after the poem?
They’re contiguous. I knew where I wanted to hide the treasure chest, so it was easy for me to put one foot down and then step on it to get to the next foot. So that’s what I did.
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 26, 2020 19:31:52 GMT -5
Contiguous can also mean connected in time. He’s used the words consecutive and chronological as well. I think he’s talking about time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2020 21:04:44 GMT -5
Contiguous can also mean connected in time. He’s used the words consecutive and chronological as well. I think he’s talking about time. There are 24 hours in a day and 24 lines in the poem. This puts the blaze line after 12pm, just as the noon sun is at its highest. Very astute comment goldilocks. |
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Post by Jenny on Apr 27, 2020 6:12:57 GMT -5
Contiguous can also mean connected in time. He’s used the words consecutive and chronological as well. I think he’s talking about time. There are 24 hours in a day and 24 lines in the poem. This puts the blaze line after 12pm, just as the noon sun is at its highest. Very astute comment goldilocks. Very interesting...... love this thought.... |
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 27, 2020 6:42:13 GMT -5
The word high is on 12th line...high noon.
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 27, 2020 6:50:15 GMT -5
High noon leaves the shortest shadow due to the position of the sun. The shadow on the cover of TFTW is quite elongated.
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Post by CJ on Apr 27, 2020 7:13:58 GMT -5
So, water high is...evaporation?
I just read the post - and it occurred to me - the when he said he "put one foot down and then step on it to get to the next foot" - that he meant the gas pedal. I've hear the ladder ideas and others before, but has anyone every mentioned that? I think he stepped on the gas pedal to get to the next foot.
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Post by heidini on Apr 27, 2020 7:23:26 GMT -5
“Stepped on it” is an expression for gas pedal. Very neat.
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Post by CJ on Apr 27, 2020 12:15:02 GMT -5
Thanks Heidini - Always appreciate your posts.
I've been wondering something else lately....do warm waters halt when you leave the comfort of home? Somehow those thoughts are melding with me...fish out of water....wondering how he felt when he sold the gallery....THAT might surprise people - if warm waters halt when you leave home....
That probable doesn't help solve the poem, unless you go to Canyon Rd or something...tied into Sloane's house for HoB, etc..
I know people have done that - but I've been wondering....I still think anything is possible.
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Post by seannm on Apr 27, 2020 12:17:32 GMT -5
All,
Do we believe that it is just the clues, as we see and read them in the poem, that are contiguous or that they are only contiguous in the physical world? Or is it possible that it is both?
I think it can be both.
Seannm
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2020 13:55:02 GMT -5
High noon leaves the shortest shadow due to the position of the sun. The shadow on the cover of TFTW is quite elongated. The sun is also going down on the cover of TFTW if you study the grass. It fits the shadow. |
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Post by CJ on Apr 27, 2020 13:55:53 GMT -5
Hey Sean - I think it could be both. I just looked up the definition and the first one to pop up was this: "sharing a common border; touching."
I like that - sharing a common border....the opposite says "distant" - which also seems interesting - that means they're "close" to each other? How close is close? Lol.
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Post by zaphod73491 on Apr 27, 2020 14:34:21 GMT -5
High noon leaves the shortest shadow due to the position of the sun. The shadow on the cover of TFTW is quite elongated. The sun is also going down on the cover of TFTW if you study the grass. It fits the shadow. Keep in mind that Forrest had no control over WHEN Dal took that picture, nor even ~exactly~ where. |
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Post by goldilocks on Apr 27, 2020 16:27:29 GMT -5
The sun is also going down on the cover of TFTW if you study the grass. It fits the shadow. Keep in mind that Forrest had no control over WHEN Dal took that picture, nor even ~exactly~ where. Hi Zap, Not sure I totally agree. It seems Forrest had specific requests for light, shadow and possibly time of day. Dal said this regarding Forrest's wishes for photo. "...he suggested the Barns area for the shadow photo. He knew I was in the park at that time. But the Barns was loaded with fishers and I didn’t want to get in their way…nor did I want them in mine…so I walked further downstream to a place I had been before. A place where earlier I had been caught on the far side of the river in a sudden and threatening thunderstorm. This was the area where the cover photo was taken..a half-mile or more below the end of the Barns Road on the Madison. But Forrest did not send me there. It was a matter of light, river bottom, reflections and river depth that drew me to that particular place. It was the best place I could think of for that photo…not a precise place Forrest sent me." "I got a walking stick and a cowboy hat and went all over the park looking for the right time and angle and fly fishing stream… The light had to be such that I would get a shadow across the river. The river had to have a gravelly bottom. There had to be wildflowers on the bank…" "I got a note back right away that said I didn’t have to worry about the shadow. That would be added after. All they needed from me was the stream side…(head smack) So the next morning I went out again..The light still had to be from the correct direction…still needed a good looking stream but I did not have to worry about the shadow." dalneitzel.com/2013/08/31/new-book-review/ |
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