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[Das Llama]

Didn't the CM used the translation by Longfellow earlier. Maybe we need a copy of longfellows book of the translation to give us the pages. or a ({edit} widley used -->) more common version but in (of the) book form .....

Also, the CM uses a lot of info from Wikipedia.... the pic of the divine comedy spheres is from there ...... anyway I started with Dante and divine comedy just to see if anything sparked a link to the puzzle. It didnt work for me (other than learning a few new things).....


Das Llama

[Godot]

This all seems too complicated for one that should be "easy." ... or do you guys think the CM was being sarcastic?

And not to be a stick in the mud, but what good does deciding which deadly sin or circle each picture is associated with? It seems that the numbers are quite specific already, if they really do lead to a specific line,word,letter etc.

I dont have any ideas myself, sorry, just here to tear down everyone else's

[dakabt]

[jabroni]

The Cm emailed me and Scott with a clue. He sent me the word "google" and Scott "html google."

I noticed the word google was hidden in the source code of the blog, but I thought it was something blogger added.

The thing that first sticks out with the clue is google books, but we've been trying that since the beginning. The numbers don't really work with any book because even if you do page #, line #, word #, letter #, you will eventually get the number 13 for word # and there aren't that many words on a line... That I could find anyway.

The next thing is maybe google searches. Maybe the numbers are certain sites that come up in that order (the 96th website in the search results) but I don't know what you would do from there.

[Das Llama]

Is this a translation or another poem by a guy that adopted Dantes name?

It looks like there may be other works avaliable look in the books and translations section.

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/img/1-1881.1stedn.96-97.jpg

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/racs/books.rac.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti


Das Llama

[CWallaby55]

"Love's Noturne" is by Rossetti, sorry. He did do some translations of the Dante we're talking about, but mostly he wrote his own poems and painted.

[jabroni]

This site: The Divine Comedy has a bunch of translations, 3 in English I think. You can also compare them side by side.

[Godot]

Can I ask you guys this: just exactly why are we looking in dante's infermo? I mean, it kinda seems like we are on the right track but we keep hitting wall after wall... and CM said it would be easy.

I googled "The pathway to hell" and was reminded by the first link that (link)The pathway to hell is paved with good intentions

Tell me what you think.

EDIT: Upon further examination of the link- it doesn't seem that important... but maybe just that saying. Were all those people with good intentions?

[Das Llama]

Ok, on the google page there is a link for "more" in that section is google "books"

[jabroni]

Sounds like a good idea. Only thing is for the Divine Comedy the word from the translation you posted would be "like". The word "from" is on pg 96 of The Divine Comedy's 3rd book Paradise.

edit: Page 96 on Longfellow's version in the first book Inferno is "Of."

[Das Llama]

This is hard to link to and is part of the reason I mentioned being lucky to get this to work out for me. This is the 3rd time i have had to look through these things to figure out where I found it in the first place. If this is correct, this is not as direct as the CM usually is. Usually he points directly at what we need - in this case there are many versions......... If this is not what he ment then it is a pretty freaking odd coincidence this works at some level.

I think I had it wrong with the "The Divine Comedy By Dante Alighieri, Thomas William Parsons, Louise Imogen Guiney"

This part was correct, on the book cover A 1,018,325

Here is the copy and pasted URL
http://books.google.com/books?id=PN9LAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+Divine+Comedy+longfellow&lrc

BAh ! even on the link, it throws that "The Divine Comedy By Dante Alighieri, Thomas William Parsons, Louise Imogen Guiney"
crap up at the top even though it has nothing to do with the book you are scrolling through. POS!

Sorry for the confusion


Das Llama

[Godot]

[CWallaby55]

cab, cad, cam, can, cap, car, cat, caw, cay

Didn't Eric have a cat?

[Akshun]

i keep seeing 96 everywhere.

reminds me of the song "96 quite bitter beings" by CKY.


lol
aaron

[jabroni]

This is what I got. The words are in order based on the book search results, so the first one is the first book from the list.


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96,1,1,1
The Divine Comedy by Dante

From F (book 3), Side S (book 2), Down D (book 1), Hostile H (complete edition)

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124,3,2,2
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Art R, Harsh A

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146,6,2,1

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Now N
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68,1,2,3 Had D
Machiavelli
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179,1,13,1
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

No 13th word, No 13th Word
------------------------------

28,1,1,1
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

And A, Again A,
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42,1,1,4 ?
No idea what book this is.
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Is it possible these are book call numbers?
Maybe the Sphinx is a publisher's logo?