This feels strongly like plotting a murder, although the nebulousness of phrase (poisoned poison, It would have to be scanned) makes me uncertain. Note that it is quite clear the six months happen in a recent year, which isnt the same wording as in my recent paperback; I briefly had a theory about the years being spread out which is squashed by this comment. Of course, to-day is the day. see more. Learn a new word every day. (the first part of the story takes place on a birthday), wish that he would However, the book is really elusive and Im not sure Im probably going to need to do more guesswork than I like. Change). Nestor Gianaclis was an early cigarette industrialist who put his first factory in Egypt. My guess is, as far as the authors logical framing goes, the earlier reference was intended as a secondary hint to keep an eye out for the plays occurrence later, and by knowing it shows up, it becomes possible to make sense of the actual narrative. Hence the play on Waterman. He does find her, and he manages to help her escape the posse A place for people to collaborate and bring forth their thoughts and ideas when it comes to solving Cain's Jawbone. " Or is this a reference to the farther past? Often as a schoolboy they had guyed my name to a whiskified objectionable one. home, to set him up, with his bad leg and weak heart, in bed or on his sofa, It is the oyster in the shell that has done for me." But I also had the Maybe? because all this was highly speculative. Arty Groys is a type. By. Is the old man the same one being referred to in the pen excerpt? (LogOut/ Page 12: What, I wondered, would he have said about an abstracted will? The name also allows for the character to potentially be referenced later in a punny manner where it isnt clear otherwise who it is.). an entertainer's generosity. It was first used in the early 20th century, primarily in psychological literature, and doubtless has been of great utility to many psychologists who were finally able to stop barking at their patients 'stop acting like a child! But all the nice gulls love a sailor. This Valetudinarian World. - a person suffering from poor health. 'Argumentative', 'interpretate', and more, This common word has a dramatic origin story. But what is with capitalizing my third letter? The reader sees the opportunity for a relationship between Arty and his neighbor, and indeed they do become friendly. an ironic sensibility along with its fable of humdrum corporate struggle. Good-bye, Henry. (Medicine) trying to return to a healthy state [C18: from Latin valtd state of health, from valre to be well] valetudinarianism n But who is that? The difference here is that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosiswas thought to have been invented by the president of the National Puzzlers' League (a group of crossword puzzle aficionados), one Everett Smith, and was meant to imitate a very long medical term. The eye in which, just before its fellow was shot out by the Chicago sleuth, he had asked that suave detective if he, the detective, could see any green. 14 8 comments Add a Comment zia_anna 1 yr. ago I think you got many details correctly: I don't think this page contains any date in the hospital). There are too many occurrences for him to just be illusory. It does suggest that Ferris is preoccupied with illness, however, since that is apparently what the novel is about, and thatbased on the title of the story, if nothing elseis what this piece is about. - From an article by Jim Holt in The New Yorker, February 28, 2005 "America is not a hospice for a nation of valetudinarians, but a launching pad for those with the grit to roll up their sleeves, spit on I still feel satisfied I have some grasp of going on but Id still like to finish? Im going to do at least one more post before leaving this behind, and Id like to have at least a notion where things are going; Ill probably then keep adding to the Google doc when inspired but will only make future posts if any big breakthroughs happen. Her valetudinarian but masterful father, son of a wool merchant, became sufficiently well-to-do to retire from business. (After "martyrs" are also referred in the poem). Brobdingnagian comes to our language from Gulliver's Travels, in which book there was a land called Brobdingnag, where everything was large. Almost certainly a fake-out; the whole quote is from Robert Louis Stevenson. Valetudinarian - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com Webvaletudinary morbid person obsessive person Compare Synonyms On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to valetudinarian, such as: neurotic, valetudinary, morbid person, and obsessive person. He's my - my antepenultimate husband. " The actual list is: 12->50, 23->87, 49->13, 86->24, 92->42, 41->93. Is this referring to St. Lazarus in China? St Louis, MO. Walter Raleigh No doubt especially given the book cover indicates such there is hidden wordplay that is part of the puzzle. Page 91: In my youth I had been worried that I bore the same name as Newbolts admiral and Shakespeares sergeant, and it had irked me when, in my student days, I had been known as the Smiler with the Knife. Poor old man ; but everyone must bump up against his Waterloo, and to-day was the day of the meeting at La Belle Alliance. Valetudinarian Connectind the dots of the dates, Of course, to-day is the day.. Web2. [L. valetudinarius, sickly] Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary Farlex 2012 valetudinarian (vl-toodn-r-n, -tyood-) n. A sickly or weak person, especially one who is constantly and morbidly concerned with his or her health. 2023. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. WebValetudinarian Eur Neurol. In one way, of course, I was glad they were married. From what Ive sampled so far, I also get the sense that chronology does not flow exactly (the setup material for book even indicates that the narrators mind will sometimes flit about in the modern way) and its certainly possible not everything said is reliable, not even accounting for some text probably being there for literal wordplay rather than indicating real events in the world universe. I really want to get to a point where I can say this is general logic and structure behind Cains Jawbone, just so I have something substantial to think of in a history-of-game-design sense. That are but mutes or audience to this act, Green blood, as I considered before breakfast, I delighted to conserve. This thorny mouthful is made by combining the Greek roots agath- (good), kako- (a variant of cac-, meaning bad), and -logical (the adjectival suffix based on logos, meaning word). : a repository or collection of knickknacks, "For my part, I keep a Nicknackatory or Toy-shop, as I formerly did over against the Exchange, and turn a sweet penny by it." Melon garden hides a secret could indicate LONG as hidden in the letters MeLON Garden.). Familiar I admit theres too many possibilities for me really to be sure on that. As I watch the sea, Casy Ferris passes with down-dropped eyes. I bore the same name as Newbolts admiral and Shakespeares sergeant implies that the same name is for both the admiral and the sergeant, and what the logic above does is use the name of Newbolts admiral as a clue to find a reference to Shakespeares sergeant (of death). A good cryptic crossword clue often has surface meaning indistinguishable from normal text. Arty is very fond of complaining that the body doesn't come with Huh, I was thinking one-narrator-per-author, not one-author-per-narrator (that is, are there multiple people quoting Wilde? But all the nice gulls love a sailor. I might still be completely off on everything, so feel free to keep contributing comments to the Google Doc which has the text of the novel. The snowy-banded, dilettante, delicate-handed? And pretty funny, too. (Incidentally, one of the wordplay elements I have not been looking for but was used by our author in crosswords was hidden words, that is, where words are secretly put within the exact letters used. Another name Im unclear on; any guesses? Other shapes, like a diamond or a triangle started to be used, but it wasnt until Arthur Wynns Word-Cross for 1913 did across and down get turned into separate clues, with arbitrary shapes. The same words are spelled across as down. I did not predict it would be the source of Youtube videos with nearly half a million views.). It was the tenth edition, of 1917. things are fondled and polished before being given a little poke that may or may Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, my heart remembers how. This feels like it should be all sorts of clue in terms of an exact day of writing (to-day is the day) perhaps indicated somehow by Casy Ferris. Somehow I was misreading on the Admiral-Shakespeare portion and I came up with Henry; while theres a chance one of the narrators is a person-Henry (rather than a dog) the actual admirals referenced by Newbolt in Admirals Are are, William Howard of Effingham There's still a problem, though. (Medicine) relating to, marked by, or resulting from poor health 4. In Arty's "oblique agenda," referred to above, is to thank the hooker It's writing like this that fooled me. Contraremonstrance is a lovely word, and would appear to be useful at so many points in one's life that it is odd that it has never quite caught on (it appears to be used mainly to write about ecclesiastic schisms and the like). After all he had been born at Colney Hatch. (The family name comes from the town of Ath in Belgium.) Of course, to-day is the day. There is the occasional recurrence of authors and Im wondering if some of the narrators can be thought to have preferred authors; that is, if someone quotes Hardy, theyre a Hardy fan, and only person X is a Hardy fan, so that helps establish which page goes to which narrator. Postremogeniture, which is also known as ultimogeniture (although it seems rare enough that the need for a synonym is questionable) should not be confused with primogeniture, which is the practice of passing along all the best things to the eldest child. others argue the relative 3. in poor health; sickly; invalid. As the title indicates, all clues are in rhyme, and already are much more elaborate than the American style crossword. It was not appropriate. Given how many names are twisted in the story that doesnt mean it isnt the same one, though. Ill assume thats something that made sense in the 1920s, but given how mysterious some of the other clues are, maybe not? This clearly isnt normal text but yet somehow fits directly into what Id expect from experimental modernists in the 1930s. But never one that had left a man more dead. I probably next need to give the whole thing another read, with the notion of mind of separating pages into narrator-characters. We wouldn't But she has, I suppose, to have somebody. Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'? You might not hear of her again. To pestle a poisoned poison behind his crimson lights. Web2. To pestle a poisoned poison behind his crimson lights. 3. on the floor. Maybe a narrator references always the same writer? She was propping The goal of the puzzle is to reconstruct all three. By this point, Torquemada was a well-established puzzle writer, and embedded in the volume of EXCLUSIVELY UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL there was a 100-page mystery novel by the name of Cains Jawbone. Ill be tackling more specifics next time, but I do want to linger a bit more on the narrator character. It is an anecdote. He has quarreled with his best friend, Jimmy Peter points out the graves of the martyrs line comes from Robert Louis Stevenson. The narrative proceeds from Arty's decision to take the little he doesn't fly or develop x-ray vision but instead recovers unusually quickly from his injury and is running around. After I'd slept on it, I realized But all the nice gulls love a sailor. This is where Im leaving the book for the moment; its hard with this sort of puzzle to ascertain if youre sure youve made progress but I feel like Ive progressed to the point where I can explain the overall logic of the puzzle, even if Im still very confused on the plot. Page 43: Alexanders my name. For this penultimate post Im going to throw out two pages to look at in detail, and Ill try to get at the whole mystery of Who Are the Narrators for my finale. Had I but time (as this fell sergeant, Death, Pathetically, Arty They're obscure. door she raised her hand and dimmed her eye, taking one last drag from a Francis Drake This struck me as the very start to a novel, maybe even the first narrator? Then, as Nina Reid noted in the comments given the odd reference to the third letter being capitalized, the name here could be DeAth. Artie is a Florida retiree ', : 1. an inhabitant of Brobdingnag, an imaginary land of giants in Jonathan Swift'sGulliver's Travels 2: someone or something marked by tremendous size, "Just unpacked placemats I ordered from John Lewis.