There is another author who has written a book called The Meaning of Meaning: W. Terrence Gordon (although a C. K. Ogden is also in the mix for that one, maybe as a fictional author or something?).
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There is another author who has written a book called The Meaning of Meaning: W. Terrence Gordon (although a C. K. Ogden is also in the mix for that one, maybe as a fictional author or something?).
Is there perhaps an Irish translation of his second novel, titled The Sirens O' Titan?
That is the most difficult one, so I'll give it to you: I was thinking of this guy. Frankly, I didn't know about him until I started researching in order to construct this problem, as a component of which he qualified precisely.Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
That's the fourth name in connection with that title
Going to guess that if you unscramble all of the initials in the authors' names you will have letters sufficient to produce:
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday
- but it seems where this reader has just arrived, Scher has already sat down, had a coke and a hamburger, and come back twice.
Not sure if there was a method to the 'unscrambling', just happened to see 'breakfast' in all the alphabet soup, for starters.
J
Yep - the initials in the authors' names are the component letters of The Breakfast of Champions. Scheh gave the method, if not the answer, several posts back.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ..........Philip K Dick.......... k
Four Quartets.......... TS Eliot.......... t s
Mr Balcony.......... CHB Kitchin.......... c h b
Necronomicon ..........HP Lovecraft.......... h p
One Way Pendulum ..........NF Simpson.......... n f
The Cop and the Anthem..........O Henry.......... o
The Coral Island.......... R M Ballantyne .......... r m
The Gift of the Magi.......... O Henry.......... o
The Great Gatsby.......... F Scott Fitzgerald.......... f
The Meaning of Meaning.......... ..........IA Richards....... i a
The Waste Land.......... TS Eliot.......... t s
The House at Pooh Corner.......... AA milne.......... a a
Tulips and Chimneys.......... EE Cummings.......... e e
Good one, Mark.
J
The Art History Two-Step Puzzle Thing
Use these overly ambiguous clues to do the 'Art History Two-Step' and discover the name of Jack of Hearts' favorite artist. We'll show you the steps!
Two to the right:
Cool!
Four to the left:
Wow!
Cha-cha-cha!
Six to the right:
Amazing!
Twenty-two to the left:
Neat!
Cha-cha-cha!
Nine to the right:
Fun!
Cha!
Positively Pulverized by MarkBastable on 8/15/2011
This is puzzleing on a whole new level.
By following the steps I ended up on the Gauguin.
But need to check a few things first, like where to start and is there another layer to unravel like, initials of artists.
You're a natural Mick, we just need to get a good pace going.
A good place to start is to know exactly what you're looking at. Once you figure that out, it seems each of the five steps will somehow contribute to the greater whole.
And when they do, you'll already know that you shouldn't count spaces. No, never when dancing.
J
Ernst?
(I'm pushed for time so I'm suggesting this without having finished the sleuthing.)
While that's an incorrect conclusion, your method may be sound. If you post your sleuthing we can see what's correct and start putting this sick animal of a puzzle out to pasture.
J
Without looking up the names of the paintings, and just going on those I know, I'd say we need an artist whose name is E*h**.
Or, strictly speaking, É*h**.
However, I may be a long way up an erroneous tree.
Tell how you've acquired É with accent aigu?
Other than that your ingenuity is applauded so far...
J
Taking the painters' full names (well, their first and last names, anyhow) as being circles of letters in which the last letter wraps to the beginning, and then beginning at the "space" between the first and last letter and following the directions for the name of the painter of each linked painting, I, well, I thought the last painting was a Goya, and it doesn't seem to be, and I can't be sure who painted the fourth one. But I did get this:
1. a
2. u
3. d
4.
5.
Which leads me to speculate that the poet Jack of Hearts might be a fan of Auden.
billl, swing and a miss. If we were playing the children's game of hot and cold you'd be very warm. Between your guess and Mark's (who would be burning up right now) this puzzle is in its death throes (but it has a few fingernails dug in yet).
Maybe you ought to review the clue left in response to Mick's contribution?
J
Well, I was working on the principle that it was a question of counting from one end or the other of the titles of the paintings (from the first of which I originally forgot the 'le').
However, that'd give the answer:
1. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
2. D'ou Venons Nous, Que Sommes Nous, Ou Allons Nous
3. Nighthawks
4. Peasant Girl with Yellow Straw Hat (aka Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, but one could argue that I really ought to find out what it’s called in Dutch.)
5. Allégorie Réelle: intérieur de mon atelier, déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique
....which doesn't make a lot of sense. However, if I've got the titles of the paintings right, this might be a help to someone else.
Thoughts so far.-
I have the Artists and the pictures - though there are different versions of the titles.
Got excited looking at 'The PICnic' thinking it would lead to PICasso, or a food related Munch. But it's all a bit tenuous so far.
I reckon this is clinging on by more than fingertips
MarkBastable deftly puts a stake in the heart of the thing! The beast has only one little fingernail left. So we have...
Two to the right:
->
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
(Manet)
Four to the left:
<-
D'où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous
(Gauguin)
Six to the right:
->
Nighthawks
(Hopper)
Twenty-two to the left:
<-
Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat
(van Gogh)
Nine to the right:
->
L'Atelier du peintre, Allégorie réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique et morale
(Courbet)
Gives:
e n h i r
... Which unscrambles into the name of what pre-eminent artist from the American Ashcan school?
Robert Henri
Mick, you get ten thousand points for your Munch comment. Alas, if it were a better puzzle...
J
Please, sir, is it Henri, sir?
Robert Henri! Very good work Mark. Everybody did great with what was probably not a very good puzzle. But hopefully we had a little fun and looked at some cool pictures, at least.
Your turn.
J
Put the following in order:
Village Chrome Betty Eric Ultra Turbulent William
Eric (the Red)
William (of Orange)
Chrome (Yellow)
Village (Green)
Betty (Blue)
Turbulent (Indigo)
Ultra (Violet)
I admit to Googling Turbulent..... and Betty......to check.....
Sorry - much too easy. I should have laid another layer of deduction over it.
Off you go, k.
Will I never learn?
OK, I 'll get thinking.....
Sorry, people, I'm going to be rather more involved than I thought over the next couple of days, so if anyone has a puzzle they would like to present, please go ahead and I'll put one in when this unexpected 'crisis' is over..... thanks.
What goes blue-red-yellow-blue-green-red?
Aunt Gertie's holiday sweaters. Her mind has gone but, bless her heart, she still tries to knit.
J
This wouldn't be a difficult one to look up on the Web, but, as ever, that would be contrary to the spirit of the thing....
Let's see: A smurf falls and hurts himself, but bandages the wound badly, and it becomes infected. Fearful of doctors, he paints the injury blue to hide it, but gangrene sets in, necessitating amputation.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
word perfect if you ask me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
I was thinking of using an AA map to plan a journey, from Moterway to A road to B road back to Moterway on to a Major Route then on to an A road again.
Until October 1998 it was green-red-yellow-blue-green-red.
From November 1998 to July 1999, it was blue-red-yellow-blue-green-red-blue, but it must have been decided that the final blue added nothing - not even a sense of urgency or surprise.
This, incidentally, is not the first clue I've given.
Thought of-
Colours of UK tax discs?
Colours of those fasteners on loaves of bread that tell you when they were baked?
But realising what the clue was - The Google colours?
Now I thought this was really good, but it turns out everyone I tell it to has heard it before. Nevertheless, here goes, a bit of lateral thinking needed.
A man is driving through a winter storm in his nice warm car. Up ahead at a bus stop, he sees his best friend, the girl of his dreams, and an old lady suffering from hyperthermia. He can't give them all a lift because his car is only a two seater. What does he do? What would you do? Give explanations.
Have his mate drive the old lady to the hospital while he gets out and uses the old 'body heat' bit on the girl of his dreams? Classic!
J
Have heard that one before. Guess the storm can't be too bad if people are out in it, and that a bus will be along soon. A good day for the driver, he gets to help the old lady, with help from his friend, and meet the girl of his dreams. If the storm is bad now though and no bus shows up, guess he can wait for his friend to return...
Wait, is that the real answer? This reader was just making up something goofy. These open ended riddles are like the SAT essay prompts.
J
It's too late now, but I would've probably just driven the old woman to the hospital, in reality. In Riddle World, I probably would've popped the hood and stood around the engine block with my friend, leaving the women inside until the bus came, knowing full well that our freezing feet would be marring the solution.
However, if it really were a good friend (and if I knew he would be a good driver in that sort of weather, using my car), and if "girl of my dreams" meant I really had to impress her but would most likely be rewarded for it (as opposed to her being some married Hollywood celebrity, etc.), I think there's a chance I would've come up with Jack's plan as well, if the situation were there before me, fully real. Too late though, sort of cheap to say that, I know.
Yes, the aptly named Jack of Hearts leapt straight to the best solution. He gets the girl and the next question