Suzanne Delage redux

Jerry Friedman · 09 Dec 2010, 23:08 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:08:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Suzanne Delage redux
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From: Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com

> From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
...

>> An easily overlooked clue is that Pie Club. What kind of pie? Only one kind 
is
> mentioned, very close--chess pie, an old Southern dessert.
...

> Where is the Pie Club described as baking 'chess pie'? 'chess' is used
> exactly once in the story, and nothing to do with pies ("the chess and
> debating society types").

Sorry to be unclear.? I was joking, as I said in my postscript.? Robert Borski, 
you told us, took "Pie Club" as a
clue for apples.? Well, the word "apple" isn't even the story, and neither is 
"blueberry", "peach", or any such--
but "chess" appears fairly close to "pie".? So I was suggesting that, 
nonsensical though the?pie-leads-to-chess
connection is, it's still stronger than the 
pie-leads-to-apple-leads-to-poisoned-apple-leads-to-Snow-White
connection.? ("Queen" is equally good for both, of course, and now that I think 
about it, so is Suzanne's
black hair and white skin.)

Jerry Friedman

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