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Post by GeneticBlend on Jun 10, 2017 23:09:32 GMT -5
There are many literature references in Breakfast Tea and Bourbon. I thought I would start a thread to uncover and discuss them.
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jun 10, 2017 23:11:30 GMT -5
On page 119, there is a quote from Charles Dickens. Here it is in its entirety:
“Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.”
The quote is about Father Time. In BTaB, they mention that the man that sells them the Butterscotch RV reminds them of this quote.
This quote is from a character, Barnaby Rudge in the book, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty. It was published 1840-1841. Could this be the novel from the 1800s that Pete Bissonette mentioned in his facebook post?
Barnaby Rudge is a historical novel, and is about the Gordon Riots of 1780. The Gordon Riots of 1780 began as an anti-Catholic protest in London, but they were also due to falling wages and unemployment.
How do you think this is important to BTaB?
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jun 10, 2017 23:16:08 GMT -5
Page 173 Hamlet
I felt like Hamlet, “I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
After digging a bit, I found that there could be at least three different interpretations of this line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
On the surface it seems like Hamlet is referring to his melancholy growing worse when the wind comes out of the north; his madness worsens when the wind is northerly, but when it is southerly, he grows clear-headed.
On another level it could be in reference to the 1578 expedition to discover the Northwest Passage to Cathy, or China. Martin Frobisher had lost three thousand pounds that he had invested in the expedition, an act of financial madness.
Lastly, handsaw is probably a misspelling for heronsaw, or hernsaw, types of birds. And this meaning is that birds generally fly with the wind, and when the wind is northerly, the sun is in the human’s eye and one can not distinguish one bird from another. If the wind is southerly, then the sun is to the person’s back, and he can easily distinguish the birds.
Could this have something to do with looking for the treasure?
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jun 10, 2017 23:17:52 GMT -5
Hemmingway is mentioned on page 28. Any ideas?
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jun 10, 2017 23:21:34 GMT -5
On page 123, we have the "flying Angela" and the "Whomping Willow", both of which are Harry Potter references.
Do we have any Harry Potter fans here?
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Post by astree on Jun 11, 2017 8:24:38 GMT -5
One reference that is hidden (if intended) is found in the poem "the boulder it freelYEATS"
Yeats wrote a poem about his daughter.
As mentioned, I given up on these types of external connections. They are too open-ended.
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jun 11, 2017 9:01:27 GMT -5
Astree,
I agree that there are open-ended questions from the book that one can research on outside sources. However, I feel this was the intention of the author. This is dangerous to treasure hunters for many reasons. It can lead down rabbit holes, and treasure hunters can use information to fit their solves. Both will result in time wasted and incorrect or no solves.
But as I said, I believe the author wants us to look into the hints he has scattered throughout the book. I think this is a very poor design for a treasure hunt. This hunt has been flawed from the beginning. But that is a subject for a whole other thread. Eventhough I disagree with the way this hunt was set up, I have made some progress, and a lot of that progress has been from discovering information about things in the book that I would not have know about if I didn't google it on the internet.
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Post by toppop on Jun 11, 2017 13:07:15 GMT -5
This is all good work. Which hunt (pun) is this type info designed for, that is the other questions in the room.
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Post by astree on Jun 11, 2017 13:09:25 GMT -5
Either a which hunt or a snark hunt?
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Post by GeneticBlend on Jun 12, 2017 17:46:03 GMT -5
"Which hunt?" That is a very good question.
There is so much information in the book that seems totally unrelated. But when you do a bit of research into things, and something in particular just keeps popping up over and over in the most unexpected places, you know that there are overlaps, and that all of the information can not be just coincidence.
And sometimes when you dig deeper into a subject, just when you think you are going to abandon that rabbit hole, you find something that is so appropriate and fitting, you are convinced you were meant to find it.
I think some of the digging I have done, even on ONE subject, will reveal information intended for two or more of the hunts. That is why sorting this all out is so difficult. Pete says there is a way to differentiate between the 3 hunts. I haven't figured that out.
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