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drizjr
Unfictologist
[SOLVED] PUZZLE: Sarah's 'Variety is the spice' dream So it turns out that Sarah's dream entry 'Variety is the spice of dead librarians' was a puzzle.
here , Sarah's email dropped hints about the characters as did the odd spacing of the email.
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I had been so dreadfully cold and begged someone to burn me up
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The Cremation of Sam McGee, by Robert Service.
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...horse-drawn coach and I was on the way to visit an aunt whose husband owned a lodging house with a Caribbean name
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Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Murier.
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... I appeared to be alone, in my heart I knew eyes were trained on me, and an old rhyme about fruit came to mine… Grapefruit and lime? It wasn't right, but it was close.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
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Nothing more than a child's scrawl, really, but I was a child myself and it met with my full approval, and I knew a boy who smelled like a swimming hole had drawn it for me.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain.
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I could not keep my mind from straying to toy with the thought of the tortured creature in the attic…The governess with the monster in the attic
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë.
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...but suddenly the attic changed; it was part of a monstrous house that I had inherited. We had gone to explore the house at the request of a doctor who wished to study it.
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The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson .
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That gives us:
this site, but now we know that Dale isn't the only one whose subconcious mind is directing him there.
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:32 am
Citizen Kane
Unfettered
Neat, Great Solve. I was working on a similar vein, but just could remember the name of the Sam McGee poem.
_________________It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. --Mark Twain
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:07 am
dashcat
Entrenched
Driz, this solve was yours. It was your idea to find the characters in each referenced book. I knew there was a puzzle in Sarah's dream but I couldn't figure it out. I'm happy I contributed to your solve
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:17 am
Sandra
Decorated
Great solve. Didn't think to go beyond just identifying the stories. It's also great to have the confirmation that Mystes is definitely part of what's going on.
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:24 am
MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
Sandra wrote:
Great solve. Didn't think to go beyond just identifying the stories. It's also great to have the confirmation that Mystes is definitely part of what's going on.
_________________Magesteff
Margaret Mead
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:34 pm
drizjr nli
Guest
Magsteff: I'm in the process of doing that now. And telling both Dale and Sarah of their common subconscious.
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:28 pm
MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
drizjr nli wrote:
Magsteff: I'm in the process of doing that now. And telling both Dale and Sarah of their common subconscious.
_________________Magesteff
Margaret Mead
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:33 pm
drizjr
Unfictologist
Mystes connection
MageSteff wrote:
Didn't Bruce also dream about fire as well?
this to Dale about the three of them having the common fire dreams.
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:20 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Who knows anything about Bruce except his blog. So far he has been ignoring my emails - guess they aren't appropriate for the storyline.
_________________
'squeek'
r u a Sammeeeee? I am Forever!
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:44 pm
drizjr
Unfictologist
Here's the reply from Sarah.
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:13 pm
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