Riddle Me This, Urth-Dwellers!

Jeff Wilson · 06 Jun 2010, 22:30 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:30:42 -0500
Subject: (urth) Riddle Me This, Urth-Dwellers!
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On 6/6/2010 2:03 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> The answer to the riddle is 'your shadow'.

Either way that's a fair guess at a partial solution, though I 
considered a book is a more suitable place to find writing than a 
silhouette.

> And, as I say, I am reserving my turn.

It's not meant to be a turnwise game as far a guessing goes, just like 
people don't have to take turns reading Wolfe's stories and figuring out 
what they mean. The person gets their turn to make a riddle by solving 
the previous one. I suppose we might decide that there needs to be some 
stopping conditions for unsolved riddles.

>>>>> Rather than reward laziness, I'll hand you a (somewhat) Wolfean
>>>>> riddle:
>>>>>
>>>>> My writ is three steps' march or four kilometers from my foot, behind
>>>>> the baseboards with everyone else's.
>>>>
>>>> I think that's enough of a head start for Brunians; the rest of you are
>>>> invited to "play" and solve the riddle.


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