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i'm stuck, i can't see anything jumping out at me Sad

**Posted:** Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:22 pm

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

Is the letter from Mrs. Kinross new?

**Posted:** Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:29 am

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Yep, letter's new, and looking fairly hinty. Kinross...Texel? Heh, she got married? Or is her mom writing in, depressed because her daughter is living in a virtual reality shell of some kind? Er, a more virtual reality shell? Virtualer.

Please note how valiantly I refrained from speculating on Texel's love life there.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:52 am

GWing_02

Hmm, maybe the first letter of each of those quotes on the top of the page?

Are they the same ones as before or are they new?

edit: Silly me, they don't change. I thought they were random.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 20, 2004 4:20 pm

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Caterpillar

In order from present year ("always comes first").

I've tried a few things ("read it from the first letter") with the first letters of Author's last names, their initials, the first letters of the name of the abstract, and the first letters of the names of the publications. All to no avail, also tried ROTing the results with no luck. I also tried switching letter 4 and 5, because they both have a date of Nov/96.....still nothing.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:36 pm

spriggan · Boot Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Cambridge, MA

Does the bit in the letter about finding the location of the conference refer to anything in context, or could that be a hint? Maybe we're looking for the name of a place? Please, no more GPS coordinates...

**Posted:** Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:38 pm

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Caterpillar

The only thing that I noticed was that the quote refers to volcanoes and on the Wongmo letter page he says "Aloha".....so I was thinking Hawaii.
I did try a few things, but since this is my first time round, maybe Wongmo is a dude who always says "Aloha".....lol.

Anyway, there isn't anything to back up my thoughts.....and I still can't get much from the abstracts.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:11 pm

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

**Posted:** Sun Nov 21, 2004 1:27 am

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

**Posted:** Sun Nov 21, 2004 1:34 am

GWing_02

Perhaps we actually have to FIND the articles this thing is referencing and dig out THEIR first letters?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:56 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

I've actually tried that, with my handy access to all sorts of online databases, but the problem is that some just aren't available (or sometimes I just don't have access). I haven't made it all the way down the list, but I've gotten more dead ends than successes so far. I found two full texts online - the 1991 article starts with an "a," and 1983 = "s." With all the dead ends, I think maybe this isn't what we're supposed to be doing. But don't quote me on that. I'm confused.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:09 pm

GWing_02

I see... Well, you probably have far more patience and resources than me, so I'll take your word for it.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:55 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Oh, no, I don't mean to cut off an avenue of exploration or anything. Just reporting what I've found, or haven't, rather.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:42 pm

Caterpillar

I tried the same thing and got nowhere either.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:26 pm

GWing_02

Have we actually established for sure what the numbers in parentheses are? They're still bugging me.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:24 am

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