theo
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Post by theo on Mar 7, 2023 17:42:23 GMT -5
30:34 "he said that it's still out there — the golden apple is.. he never went out to retrieve it — it's still out there and he passes it on a pretty regular basis. He said it's not too far away, you know, he didn't go very far, he said, to hide it. So it's within the city of Grand Rapids, basically. I mean, you don't have to go very far, you're probably not going outside the city of Grand Rapids, city limits." It's not clear to me how much of that is a direct quotation and how much is the interviewer making assumptions. Did the author say anything about the city limits? Did the author even say anything about Grand Rapids? "Not too far away" has a huge range of meanings, depending on the speaker. It could mean "within a few blocks" or "within a few neighboring states." "Passes it on a pretty regular basis" has that same kind of ambiguity. It could mean "driving around town" or it could mean "driving to visit my family in Pittsburgh a few times a year."
Okay, since nobody else seemed to be doing it, I wrote to the address that Canuck provided and asked Martin about the Grand Rapids city limits thing. Basically I repeated the same questions that I posted on this message board back in November.
Here is the entirety of Martin's response:
Grand Rapids city limits are my own words. It could be beyond the city limits. “Not too far” is a pretty subjective phrase and I’m sorry for any confusion my excitement may have caused.
So there you have it.
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theo
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Post by theo on Mar 14, 2023 18:19:01 GMT -5
Just for the fun of it, let's play around with the idea of "not too far away."
If I'm travelling by car, I'd say that anywhere within an hour or two is nearby. Three hours isn't a long drive, but it's more of a scheduled thing. Four hours of driving would be my upper limit for "not too far away" and then anything more than five or six hours would be a serious road trip.
So if four hours of driving is our approximate boundary, here's where it could get us from Grand Rapids:
Some thoughts: - All of the lower peninsula of Michigan is in range (but I'd be surprised if it's hidden in Cam's home state).
- It could possibly be near the tip of the upper peninsula, near Sault Ste. Marie.
- Given that there's a ferry across Lake Michigan, all of the eastern edge of Wisconsin is in range.
- The NE corner of Illinois is possible, but I doubt it would be in the urban areas of Chicago.
- Northern Indiana is definitely a possibility.
- Northerneastern Ohio is also possible.
Of all the places on that list, Ohio stands out. I'll have to go back and check, but there was something odd in the book about the way that state name was written.
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AlchemistQ
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Post by AlchemistQ on Apr 1, 2023 14:21:16 GMT -5
Kind of vague because I don't want to give it all away... So I used the instructions "Discard the two dimist" and "In order to retrieve, you must first construct" and "From the remainder, locate the omphalos..." and I was able to create a diagram on one imgae that 100% overlays another image. The diagram I made also matches the lines on the apple icon on the title page. This makes me 100% sure I'm on the correct path. But I'm stuck trying to use the image as a map as instructed: "That with which you've seen to be so, use as a map in the rain, wind, or snow." UPDATE: I've compiled my solve attempt into a PDF and uploaded it to the Facebook group and the Discord server in case anyone is interested.
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