Posted on 6th November 2014
Puzzle[]
poems can be
any words, recycled
from great masters
one to ten
making a slope
then layer by layer, peeled away
from the outside in
to create new verse
lottery numbers?
3,5,2,7,4,1,6
no, friend, monograms' first!
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| Motherless risehousewives brigade
near me, deep grace bone night I, tired light is with and ideal juicy of Watching the she heart dark and a machinery Forward lightly your lovely being with the Tread carry are of barking in I woods ends from dynamo The; the dog starry For the; the Prevent to Connection |
Hint 1 |
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Stella mentions great masters and words recycled. Maybe the words are not in the right order / grouping
Hint 2 |
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Think of what a monogram is
Solution |
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Path #1:
Starting from the last word, start reading backwards by going skip 0, take word, skip 1, take word, skip 2, take word, skip 3, take word, skip 4, take word...
This will give: Connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night (10 words)
Do it again to get: Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone (9 words)
Path #2
The first part of the Challenge explains how the second part was constructed. Create a pattern of placeholders with "one to ten making a slope" like this:
1A 2A 2B 3A 3B 3C 4A 4B 4C 4D 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F 7G 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F 8G 8H 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F 9G 9H 9I 10A 10B 10C 10D 10E 10F 10G 10H 10I 10J
Then peel them "away from the outside in" to create the pattern of words in the Challenge:
1A 2B 3C 4D 5E 6F, 7G 8H 9I 10J 2A, 3B 4C 5D 6E 7F 8G 9H 10I 3A 4B 5C 6D 7E 8F 9G 10H 4A 5B 6C 7D 8E 9F 10G 5A 6B 7C 8D 9E 10F 6A 7B 8C 9D 10E 7A; 8B 9C 10D 8A 9B; 10C 9A 10B 10A
Replace the placeholders in the sloped pattern with the corresponding words.
At this point you will have quotes from poems from these authors:
Motherless
- David R Slavitt
I rise
- Maya Angelou
Watching tired housewives
- Charles Bukowski
Forward the light brigade
- Alfred Tennyson
Tread lightly she is near
- Oscar Wilde
I carry your heart with me
- E. E. Cummings
The woods are lovely dark and deep
- Robert Frost
For the ends of being and ideal grace
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone
- Wystan Hugh Auden
Connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
- Allen Ginsberg
Take the first letter of each author's name and reorder them using the numbers given by Stella. This gives you the word comrade.
stl.la/comrade leads to Flyer where a partial missing child poster is seen
