Johann_Kaspar

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Maybe after all this thread is for the Humour Forum!

Nazaroo

Commissioner: "And the fact that I was a workaholic?..."

Ace Ventura: "I can tell by the urine stain on your pants that you're a single-shake man. Far too busy for the follow up jiggle."

Johann_Kaspar

Toto, I have much respect for you, but here you are showing some kind of prejudice. I am not complaining, I am stating a fact. And may I ask you why you closed the other thread? It was derogatory from the start attacking violently other posters (even those I don't agree with, it doesn't matter). Did it escape you? Why didn't you move then? You are chosing to close it only when some posters are shedding some light on Chris' behaviour, which is manipulative to say the least. Only look objectively at the present thread. My point of view is that it is favouritism. Is it allowed?

And why are you asking a question to No Robots when he will have no possibility to reply?

This very thread should have been closed a long time ago or sent elsewhere. Imo it has nothing to do here.

And do you care about the answer of this "game"? For it is nothing but a game. And the only result would be that "you are not a literary scholar, even if you think you are".

Now, tell me if I need to bring those points to the complaint room?

RED DAVE

As more and more precious material, such as the recently discovered F3 fragment is discovered, the philistines come out of the woodwork.

RED DAVE

Johann_Kaspar

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Exactly what I said!

Johann_Kaspar

I see you took Chris' place. For he is gone. Profile emptied.

Toto

Exactly.

Johann_Kaspar

At least there was one good move by a Mod in the Lounge.
Thinking about all the dupes who took those two threads seriously...

Febble

I do hope Chris hasn't gone. I'm childish enough to want to know the answer.

And I disagree with whoever complained about lack of provenance. We have provenance - we have what we know of Chris (not much, in my case, being a newcomer to the forum). We have the fact that it was presented as a puzzle. We have the information that, according to its source, it is a "known work". That means (or would seem to mean) that the puzzle has a solution. Unless the whole thing is so meta that Chris planned to leave us all in the lurch to demonstrate the nature of an aporia. Or something.

And I can't stop myself trying to guess, and Red Dave's got me looking up Plutarch's letters. I can't find one, but I can find a few introspective dialogues that look plausible for style. That might explain the translationese. But not Chris's interest in the cipher post.

hmm....

RED DAVE

Just to set the record straight for the scholars of the future, F3, the sonnet that has been described as the work of a "genius," was found at the bottom of a pile of garbage bags (what archaeologists would call a "kitchen midden") in the ancient borough of Chelsea in the New [city of] York (below which dubtless lies the old city of York, whose traces God has seen to efface).

Just wanted to make that clear.

RED DAVE