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[Varin]

[PUZZLE] ladybee777 email 8/03

[Dorkmaster]

Ok, Varin... what have we got here... the only thing that I can think of is this:

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/0/6/11065/11065-h/11065-h.htm

it's got mention of a lot of animals... so does the song "Swingin on a Star", and turtle power, well, it's got turtles? Stormy weather has no connection that I can tell, excepting the previous mention in the Melissa/Odysseus/Castaway stuff...

(edit, I got that link from turtle power and the *** end: full license *** stuff...)

[Varin]

This is what I harvested from the other thread...

Stormy Weather - lyrics sent by an Anonymous Coward
"just can't get my poor old self together"
"the blues walked in and met me"

Horton Hears A Who? - text sent by NivekPS2
"Though thin and though thick"

The Flea by John Donne - text sent by msekolpsu and also posted in the ilovebees blog by Diogenes
"MARK but this flea, and mark in this"

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
"That I shall never look upon thee more"

Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
"unimaginable filth and stench; and disease"
"I should not be able to make any one understand how exciting it all was."
"I brought it home and hid it in a secret place"
"the house is so sad and lonesome"

The Project Gutenberg eBook, History of Julius Caesar, by Jacob Abbott
"favorite of the plebeian masses" and "thrown into a condition of extreme danger"

"Swinging On A Star" (song)
"he can't write his name or read a book"

Wasteland
"I read, much of the night"

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle References - HoldenC sent the names of the TMNT

edited to make more readable

[ste]

Turtle Power was sent in an email by Macavity, as mentioned here.

[Dorkmaster]

Well, I also found it notable that Stormy Weather pertained to not being close to one's woman, like the princess feels about Dana... Just spec without direction, but I found it notable...

[Bellebet]

We also have the lyrics from "You're a mean One, Mr. Grinch." Which is what I sent out in an email.

a bad banana
cuddly as a cactus (cat in the letter)
charming as a (butterfly in the letter)

We also have proof it's the Sleeping princess we're talking to, since she signed it that way, and that she doesn't think much of the Flea, who can't read.

Also, there's the missing chapter 3, which ties in with the missing third recipe.

Bellebet

[Dorkmaster]

Now, it's something important that "the secret" has to do with turtle power... It's a secret she can't tell at the beginning, but she does at the end, and mentions turtle power... we gotta focus on that, I think... (and the fact that it's secret... maybe in the recipe3 page?)

[HoldenC]

I am almost positive...

[peeveen1]

Despite the email ending with Project Gutenberg syntax, not all of the texts quoted from are available from there (some are, though).

The email seems to be mainly built from things that have been sent to that email account, so I'm not sure if the actual sources are particularly important.

[Dorkmaster]

Holden C, can you expand on that, especially the primer part (I am only curious, since I found a primer on project gutenberg when I entered the turtle power part with the "end: full license" thing)

[leetch11]

Princess Nell

[peeveen1]

HoldenC, I think "The Sleeping Princess" is the original title for "Sleeping Beauty".

And "met with many extraordinary adventures" could be a line from Dio's Roman History. (London: 1917), pp. 399-403. This ties in with the Julius Caesar thing.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/oldacademics/history/war/Classical/Rome/36-Antony-Medes.htm

[Andy]

This is a reach, but it's already been mentioned that there is no chapter 3, and the 3rd recipe is missing from the site. Could the chapter of this story somehow relate to the corresponding recipe pages? (I know, there are 8 recipe pages but only 5 chapters).

[leetch11]

The Primer

[HoldenC]

The Diamond Age