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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
11 comments:
Vincent was not a model citizen.
His fights and feuds were legend.
He'd give a left jab and right hook
To whoever gave him an ugly look!
He'd willingly upend his mug of beer
To drench whoever looked at him queer!
Then he'd tilt his beret, and turn his back,
Put his fine on the bar, and off to his flat.
He was depressed, his paintings wouldn't sell,
So only the fights could he gloat on, to himself.
Some day, when his genius was recognized
Would angry Van Gogh ever be pacified.
FLN, Wilbur ~ I've read a fair amount of Gore Vidal, but I can't say I know that one. I'm looking for a next leisure read. Maybe I'll check the kindle version.
Owen ~ Wow. I knew Van Gogh got himself beat up, but I hadn't realized what a bruiser he was. I guess that's right: it's hard to get into so much trouble if you aren't looking for it.
The poem flows nicely, a pithy portrait. But I have a hunch he was pretty well pacified before his genius got its due.
Today's solution reminds me of other pairs, duos, couples--specifically Penn & Teller. I am remembering an act presented on their show by a magician who pretended to be a pickpocket.
Among other stunts, he slipped Teller's watch off his wrist and swiped Penn's wallet.
Of course, none of these tricks was an actual theft, and sleight of hand ruled the day.
~ OMK
A little trouble with#1 and #3. The riddle-solution popped right up.
So ol' Vince was a predecessor of WWE's Vince. Did V1 lose an ear in one of those brawls? So much for the dreamyeyed pacific artists.
I didn't see a Kindle version. It's apparently a popular read although Gore was controversial. In fact, talking brawls didn't he get into a fistfight with Buckley on TV!
WC
Solved this late last night/early this morning, but thought I'd wait for Owen's poem, which never disappoints. It went from feet to fists, logically enough. I guess it's
pretty accurate depiction, yes?
I thought the jumble clues were easy, though the first one took a moment. That solution isn't exactly a groaner, but the plethora of puns in cartoon and solution together made it a little anticlimactic.
Great poem, Owen, which intrigued me so much that I decided to look up Vincent Van Gogh on Wikipedia. Their commentary and pictures of his work are the most detailed and extensive that I've ever seen there, in my memory--simply fascinating. What an incredible artist he was, with such a difficult and tragic life.
Happily, this morning's Jumble, with its funny, punning cartoon, is a delight, and I got all four items and the solution even without Ol'Man Keith's clever gloss. So, except for the diabolical Sudoku, which eluded me, it's been a fun solving morning. Have a great day, everybody.
Interesting, isn't it, how clearly personality differences can sometimes be seen? Misty is definitely a glass half full person, while I have always been the glass half empty type. At least the glass does contain something!
Wilbur ~ No, it turns out there is no Kindle version of the book. Too bad.
I settled instead for an Elmore Leonard I hadn't read. Easy to swallow, never disappoints.
Sandy ~ I guess I try to see the glass for what it is. That doesn't mean I succeed, but I do regularly try to factor my mood into my observation. Today, for instance, I'm feeling on the "up" side, so am likely to veer toward optimism. There is hope for the world.
But be sure to vote.
~ OMK
Sandy, you're probably more of a realist than I am, while I'm a bit of a hopeful . . . (idiot?). Either way, we go with what's easiest for us to handle, don't we?
I think that's insightful from Misty.
Don't you agree, Sandy?
I mean that's a capsule version of the Darwinian view of survival. In action. Not the ripped-off notion of "social survival" so much as a more basic idea that our "gut" responses are instinctively protective, or over-protective. They "feel" right to us.
In reality, our range of pessimism, optimism, & realism may end up being equally protective, but they still factor into our 1st lines of defense.
~ OMK
Sorry, I should not have used the word "instinctively." The views I mention are unlikely to be innate, but learned.
Yet in adulthood, they are also very powerful.
~ OMK
Liked your comment, Ol'Man Keith. I think you could have been a very helpful philosopher!
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