| abate, messy, accent, skimpy, "seam" easy.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The exploring party had gone half a klick
When Tom felt a skimpy tremblor's kick.
They all felt the next ones, about hourly.
Flora abounded, but no fauna did they see.
When they made camp, the quivers abated.
Whether to use their bedrolls, they debated.
Years in their ship, they slept upon the grass.
Morning, fingers tried to hold them fast!
To break the fragile holds seemed so easy,
The would-be captors were weak as daisies.
But they were rooted solid to the ground.
By digging, no ending could be found!
A finger was chopped off to analyze it.
Just wood with an accent of violet.
The group should have set sentry.
In the log, this would be a messy entry!
(To be drawn out.)
I am not sure how to read the pronoun "they" in the 3rd line of the 3rd stanza. It makes a difference whether the foe--the wicked flora--remain "rooted" or Tom's party are still held fast. The crew's ability to chop & analyze seems a sign of their freedom, but they may be able to do this while writhing in their bonds. I fear for them if they're still trapped by those violet wooden fingers!
Good going, Owen, you got me totally Engaged!
The J's words were user-friendly, and the solution foreseen before the words were cracked. All seemed quite un-difficult today.
~ OMK
Yes, this story is getting very interesting. I'm sure that it's the fingers that are rooted in the ground, but who knows what else they are attached to way way deep.
The jumble was easy, especially the clues. I did stare at all those vowels in the solution for a few seconds before it was "of course".
Have to dash off to teach my class on Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' this morning, but had fun doing the Jumble, getting all four answers and the solution without any problem. Will check Owen's poem later.
Misty, I posted a quote from Nabokov about Joyce recently, did you see it? .
Yes, I too dashed off the four J's in 30 seconds. But ...
I had NECTAR as #3. So SAME STAY didn't work in a number of ways. I had been short an A of course.
There's some sci-fi somewhere with The"Grabbers in the Ground" . A vague deja Vu on that
WC
I'm really not happy with this installment at all. It advances the story in a way that will stretch it out longer than I intended, has no meter or poetic styling, and isn't even good prose. It does advance the story the direction I want it to go, but that's it. OMK, the "they" were the "fingers" that were easily escaped from. That confusion is an example of my poor writing on this one.
Please don't beat yourself over the head.
(BTW, I was very clear that it was the fingers.)
LOL, Sandy ~
Lucky guess!
~ OMK
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