| || rebel, vinyl, studio, lagoon, labor intensive.
Image from the Internet.
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.
8 comments:
Thru intensive interrogation, the rebel resisted
He "didn't do nothing at all," he insisted.
His studio was searched with meticulous care,
From the dresser drawers to the vinyl chair.
They scrutinized the paintings he labored on
Sometimes all night, from dusk until dawn.
Where he daydreamed, lagoons and palms,
Places he never expected to to set foot on.
Again Owen's poem does a marvelous job of condensing and contextualizing the four clue words within an incident in the life of a character, in this case an artist. He also manages to provide a hint of the solution.
He recently wrote that he finds it easier to work with seemingly unrelated words, but that can only be true for one gifted with the imagination to create a unifying situation.
Another solution hint?
As an Olympic sport, swordplay is divided into several categories, from sabers to epees and from exterior venues to interiors. My favorite is the Indoor Fencing Div..
~ OMK
I guess they're done with guest cartoonists for the time being? That's good. The jumble wasn't difficult. Solution? Definitely true.
Enjoyed the poem. It almost sounds like a story that should be continued -- was he more of a rebel or an artist? And will he ever make it to those places? My, you do know how to pack a lot into a few words, Owen.
I had to cheat on #2 - I just had the spelling wrong and didn't change it. It didn't help that I quickly penned SODIUM on #3.
Finally, with all the letters jotted down I had nada. Then I looked at the illustration! What's going on there? Oh, duh .
Yes, it sounds like chapter I of a saga . Perhaps the Spanish war of the 30s.
WC
Testing testing - seeing if this will restore my byline...
Well, that worked! But only after a certain degree of Angst. I had to enter my old Goole account info, which I never use. So that meant I had to recover the old data from my office computer.
Then when I tried to refresh my backup/confirming phone number, it froze me out--because it insisted on sending a text with a security code for me to double-confirm it. But my phone number is a landline (what an old Luddite!) that can't receive texts.
I had to start again and then I had to agree to let my old security phone number ride, even though it is an out-of-date, non-functioning number.
I swear, the geniuses who come up with these menus/algorithms are too smart for their own good.
~ OMK
Usually, they give you the option of an email for confirmation . When I log in from my cellphone to my bank they send a security code.
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I can cut and paste it so quickly it doesn't bother me.
WC
They would offer an email if I had not already (years ago) selected my (former) office phone number. I was caught in a loop because I wanted to change that old number. To do that, I couldn't just erase the lapsed one but had to give a new number, hence the farce.
~ OMK
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