| || funny, gripe, fickle, access, "in-seine".
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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.
7 comments:
Would a robot ever gain access to his heart?
Oh, not the bloody, pulpy, biologic part.
Not some algorithm, pre-coded how to feel.
Can he have a spark unique, that his soul is real?
Can the spark grow in his breast, (or chest of gears or wire)?
Can it make him care, give his feelings fire?
Will it make him fickle as a woman or a cat?
Laugh at something funny, turn to griping just like that?
It might be a great day, should that come to pass,
Or a day of reckoning for things done in the past!
Would a sane computer condone our insane deeds?
Or would it say, "Enough!" and cull us all like weeds?
Owen, this poem is a real beauty. You pose a sharp & brilliant question--whether a creature created by humans may turn around and hold us to our own highest standards. Either you've read Ian McEwan's latest novel, or else your mind shares the same thrust of curiosity that drives his Machines Like Us, as you both reach similar twists. Bravo!
The jumble continues this week's fondness for simplicity. Easy-Peasy. As for the solution, we have a slightly amusing play on words. The
cartoon's Eiffel Tower & blue water pinpoint a Parisian river as surely as the Blarney Stone & Sinn Féin designate Ireland.
~ OMK
I agree with Ol'Man Keith, Owen--your poem is a total delight, and will be one of my favorites. Thank you for that Saturday gift. I also loved this Jumble. Got three of the words easily but had trouble with the third one. Finally decided to see if the solution would help and it sure did. The cartoon answer jumped right out at me, and once I put the I in place the third letter solve was easy. Loved the cartoon, especially in color, and I like how the two guys have different hair, eyebrows, and shirts. Neat to see tiny figures crossing the bridge to head over to the tower--makes me miss Paris.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
Yes, this jumble was too easy. The solution didn't even require clues, it was so obvious. Clever pun, though.
I do like your poem, Owen. I'm not familiar with McEwan, but I am familiar with Asimov, as I know you are. Or maybe Capek's R.U.R? Though those were more like androids. In any case, I suppose we humans are all too aware of our imperfections, and project more 'perfect' possibilities, with uncertain results.
I think Ian McEwan showed up next door at the LaTimes xword. I remember following the link. Great poem.
I saw the French so I thought of En -----. But that river seemed familiar.
WC
I forgot to ask -- the on-line cursor indicator is a green cell. Usually I paste a blank square or circle over it, hardly any trouble. Today and tomorrow I just left it green. Those of you who print it out, does it make any difference?
I don't print it out, but I did wonder what the green cover meant--specifically whether I should count its letter or not.
Easy enough to solve: I just counted the solution's letters to see that we didn't need that one.
~ OMK
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