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Linor Goralik. e2-e8: round ten
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Linor Goralik
Publication date: February 14, 2001
Round ten will be the penultimate round. That is, today we are still playing as usual, but we are not planning a new link; and next time I will summarize the results.
In the field of awards, today we have two pie eaters - Vadim Zelenkov and Poodle.
Vadim Zelenkov offers a somewhat abstract solution, but not without all sorts of charm in my eyes:
In fact, the chain from Holmes to Mary Poppins is one link, but not literary, but rather topographical. I always imagined that Baker Street was like in the famous film - long and very “urban” or something - but when I got to London, I found out that in fact house 221b is at the end of the street, a hundred meters away from the entrance to Regent's Park, where the events described in "Mary Poppins" take place. They are neighbors, that's the whole chain...
I think it's very nice; Considering that a couple of rounds ago we decided to understand intertext in a very broad sense of the word, I will give 3 pies for this chain (well, not 4. I can’t. 3 - I can, yes.)
The poodle sent Castaneda a two-move:
Four winds/cardinal directions (Castaneda) -->
East/north/west/south wind (Mary Poppins).
Translation from super-laconic to human: we mean, on the one hand, the four types of souls that Castaneda calls the four cardinal directions, and on the other, Mary Poppins with her menacing “I’ll stay until the wind changes.” From a philosophical point of view, the connection is excitingly good, because Mary Poppins disappears every time and returns precisely when the state of mind of her pets changes, moving into a different stage of growing up. 4 pies.
I will summarize the overall pie bill in the next issue; For now I’ll just say that Poodle, in a hurry, sent me a bundle from “Mary Poppins” to “Electric Lisa,” which did not pass the vote. I racked my brain for a long time about what to do about it. Rules are rules; one pie for the will to win.
From the previous paragraph, accordingly, it follows that the “Khazar Dictionary” won the vote. Fashion forward. No one has guessed the riddle of what unites these two works. Including me. Sanin, who proposed the riddle in the last issue, fortunately, gave a favorable answer: both works were first published in Russian in the cult Russian-Latvian magazine “Rodnik”. Which, on the one hand, reveals that Sanin himself belongs to certain intellectual circles... On the other hand, it makes us all ashamed. Sanin - two reward pies.
In total, today our general scheme looks like this:
Let's start the chain: from "Mary" to the "Khazar Dictionary" .
Here “Mary Poppins of Cherry Street” and her charges meet Maya, the second star in the Pleiades constellation, who has come down to buy gifts for her six sisters. Maya minces from shelf to shelf, pretty and almost naked - in a light bluish haze - and consults with the admiring seller and with her companions:
"- And now for Alkyone. It’s hard to choose for her. She’s quiet, thoughtful, and she never wants anything. Maybe buy her a book, huh, Mary Poppins? About Gulliver. I think she’ll like it. And if she doesn’t like it , look at the pictures. Wrap it up, please!”
Gulliver - easy connection; There are plenty of them everywhere, just like the Chinese. I’d like to find something more interesting: something that doesn’t resemble either a direct quotation or the use of the name of Swift’s hero as an example of a traveler who ended up in the middle of nowhere against his own will. Let's go like this:
"Thus the swindler may be regarded as a banker in petto , and the 'financial operation' as a swindle in Brobdingnag."
This is “Swindle as an Exact Science,” one of the most striking texts created by Poe in the genre of social satire. Some of the methods he explains are now outdated, others have been used by my personal acquaintances with stunning success. In particular, the trick described below was performed on a certain dishonored bank check; the preparation took a month and forced the dog to poop out a whole unused checkbook, but the owner won almost a thousand bucks on it:
"And here is a subtle deception. An acquaintance of the deceiver owns a promissory note of the latter, written in red ink on a regular form and provided with a signature. The deceiver buys two dozen such forms and dips one form in the soup every day, and then makes his dog jump after him and in the end gives it to her to eat. When the debt is due, the swindler and the swindler’s dog come to visit a friend, and the conversation immediately turns to the debt. The friend takes the receipt out of his notebook and is ready to hand it to the swindler, when suddenly the swindler’s dog jumps up and devours it. paper without a trace. The cheater is not only surprised, but even annoyed and outraged by such absurd behavior of his dog and expresses his full readiness to pay off his obligation as soon as it is presented to him."
By the way, dipping paper into soup is not uncommon in literature; it can be found from Yevtushenko ( “...It’s not for nothing that he, dipping pages into borscht, / Read a textbook on mechanics...” ) to Pavich :
“Fatty food was harmful to the old man, and he, quietly from his family, every day, one after another, dipped the pages of the “Khazar Dictionary” into a plate of soup to collect fat from the surface, and then threw away the oily paper. Thus, even before that, as anyone has noticed, he has tormented the entire Lexicon Cosri."
It’s a pity, but to be honest, we don’t care: we, like the old man, achieved our goal.
In total, our chain is as follows:
Travers // Mary Poppins -->
Swift // Gulliver's Travels -->
By // Deception as an exact science -->
Pavich // Khazar Dictionary
Easy and short; I will be glad to see your options; I remind you that this is the last opportunity to earn pies before the end of the game. Also, ask questions about the game and the project; After summing up the results for the next issue, I will answer them.
Kisses, Larin.
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