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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.
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Thorin and Fili and Kili were now the guests of honor
Even Mr Baggins was given a seat and addressed "Yes sir, No sir".
The Master of the town had no deterrent for the excitement
Though secretly he panned the quest but hid his discontent.
But no excitement could soothe the fear that Bilbo felt
Every time he looked north where Smaug the dragon dwelt
But nothing could thwart Thorin's plans and the thought
Of treasure regained. Driven by greed all dangers were forgot.
The party were told that they were free to use
The assets of the town. "Just ask, we will refuse
Nothing. Just remember your friends in Laketown
When you recover that which is truly your own.
WC
Gosh, Wilbur, not a lot of traffic on the site yet I see by your poem that we're working our way up to some action. Bilbo is fearful and Thorin is eager; I'm with Bilbo.
The jumble wasn't very difficult or very clever but ok. It's Wednesday.
Clever use of the Jumble solution in your poem, Wilbur--very enjoyable.
This was a fun Jumble for me, with an interesting cartoon. Got all four Jumble words without any problem but the solution stumped me at first because it had only one vowel and two repeated consonants. But looked for a four letter word, and after that it fell into place. Yay!
Hope Owen and Ol'Man Keith make an appearance soon. Nice to see you this morning, Sandy.
Sandy, I'm nearing the point where I started , long, long ago. eg "In a cavity in the mountain". The sun and the moon and a thrush will combine to reveal the secret door to Smaug's lair.
Actually, Misty, #4 did give me trouble and the riddle-solution a bit too. I never thought of it as two words and the first standing alone.
WC
Sometimes when unfaithful spouses need an excuse for not being home at an agreed-upon time, they will arrange to bang up the family car, just a little, so they can claim they were delayed by “an accident.”
The resulting battle scar is known as a cheater-dent.
“Let’s not call the insurance, dear. It’ll only raise our premium.”
~ OMK
The curtain opens.
Evening. A tree.
Two tramps.
#1: Let's go.
#2: We can't.
(Pause.)
#1: Why not?
#2: We're waiting for Owen.
#1: Oh.
(Pause.)
#1: Are you sure this is it?
#2: What?
#1: Where we were supposed to wait?
Ah ha! I see what you did, OMK.
1. I can't go on like this.
2. That's what you think.
Bingo, Sandy!
I like your abbreviated version.
Among the beauties of Beckett's masterwork is his ability to encapsulate the essence of drama in the shortest possible unit.
Theorists such as Aristotle, Gustav Freytag, and Bernard Beckerman wrote of "perepeteia," "building action," "climax," "crux," "descrescence," and "nesting action," but no author caught it all so perfectly as Beckett in the five lines* that serve as a motif for the play.
First, there's a proposition, a thesis.
Then opposition, antithesis!
Followed by puzzlement--a question & challenge.
Then a revelation, the synthesis and summary of all that's at stake.
And lastly, a falling action, decrescence.
Or, as Lou Costello would have put it:
"He-ey, Oh-WEN!"
~ OMK
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* "Let's go."
"We can't."
"Why not?"
"We're waiting for U-know-Who."
"Oh."
You two caused me to consult Wikipedia. I'm no wiser than when I started. Perhaps that's where Seinfeld got the idea of a sitcom about nothing.
WC
What are you doing now , Wilbur?
Waiting for Misty.
Why?
I don't know but she might
Oh
Wilbur, we're waiting for Owen,and you're waiting for Misty. We could be waiting forever for t-Good. (in the spirit of the jumble blog)
There was another work, something about "Lefty". OMK will know sans LIU. Okay, LIU. Not Inge, not Agee but Clifford Odets. Wait all they want but Lefty never shows either.
Similar rhetoric as used today. Anybody supporting the worker is a Commie or a Lefty.
WC
Misty's been waiting for Owen too. Doesn't Owen have another blog sight we might check? This is so worrying.
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