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5HC : Strong men weep and women faint.

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Jim Raylor02 Feb 2005, 19:09as archived
5HC : Strong men weep and women faint.
A detective novel in which the first few pages have been removed by a sharp edge? No you are holding it upside down. When GW wrote 5HC he got around the usual problem with whodunnits. Once you reach the final pages you know what happened and (if it is good) you will never re-read it again without knowing the ending. But what is the last page in a novel shaped like a moebius band? You find it by a process of eliminaton and relaxation. I don't want to spoil it for others. ===== http://prisoner143.50megs.com/ I am not a number I am a free person!
Maru Dubshinki02 Feb 2005, 19:22as archived
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In a moebius loop, you must go through 720 degrees to return from whence uou began, because one loop is 360 degrees, and you are flipped on the first loop, it takes a second. So the last degree is located precisely 719 degrees from the begining degree. There is a fake ending, when you reach 359 degrees, a tonic which fools you perhaps but doesn't return you to the key you began in (read 'Godel Escher Bach:...' if that makes no sense to you.). What makes you so sure you found the home key, the skeleton key, teh real solution? ~Maru No luck with Gmail still eh? that stinks.
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 03:09:24 +0000 (GMT), Jim Raylor <rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: A detective novel in which the first few pages have been removed by a sharp edge? No you are holding it upside down. When GW wrote 5HC he got around the usual problem with whodunnits. Once you reach the final pages you know what happened and (if it is good) you will never re-read it again without knowing the ending. But what is the last page in a novel shaped like a moebius band? You find it by a process of eliminaton and relaxation. I don't want to spoil it for others. ===== http://prisoner143.50megs.com/ I am not a number I am a free person! ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________
Nathan Spears02 Feb 2005, 20:33as archived
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--- Jim Raylor <rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: You find it by a process of eliminaton and relaxation.
That sounds like a colonic. Do you guys think you could spend a little more time thinking and making your points clear before submitting a post? A proofread or two would also go a long way.

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