HUNGRY CARTIER-BRESSON
Friday, August 19, 2011 at 2:33PM As usual, sorry for my absence. Since the confidential-assistant revenue stream has dried up for the moment, I have had to turn elsewhere for funds. Not an easy thing in this economy, of course, but fortunately I have that art-school degree to fall back upon. Yes, I've decided to double-down on the photography sideline. What do you think of my most recent work?
For those of you more interested in the 12 than in my monograph-in-progress: It seems wise to wonder whether the state-highway-mile system applies any longer. For the residents of Ternky Tower, it made sense, of course: a unified system so that any one of them could locate the jewels. In other words, that wasn't a case of accidental fingerprints; the residents left comprehensible clues because the clues were intended to communicate. Now, though, it seems the answers rest not in the building, but in the man. I don't believe Dodge intends to help anyone. I don't believe he's playing the same game as the residents. I believe he's a big jerk.
Also, I believe I can eat this entire watermelon in one sitting.
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Are those peaches or nectarines?
I prefer a Fruit Pie.
Nice Still Life.
I think the emphasis here is on carrots, peach, basket, and the avant-garde...all floating on a stay-puff-sea.
Couple thoughts, art has much to do with its audience. If we were giraffs or bulls, then i suppose we would prefer to see nectarines, but if we are fans of Roald Dahl, the peaches make more sense. Personally speaking, I'm a Bill Murray fan.
It looks like we do have some confirmation about two of our biggest questions. no SHM solution this time around, and no more staring at pictures. This is all about laying out what we know about Roy Dodge.
One thing that I think is important to note about Dodge is that is seems to parallel himself closely after Sherlock Holmes. His apartment (or at least his facsimile apartment) has several items closely associated with Holmes, including a violin, a deerstalker cap, and pipe among other things. He even had a confidential assistant a la Watson.
So, here are the observations I see:
-Wants to return to Washington and fish
-Hates mimes.
-Models himself after Sherlock Holmes.
- Knew Gus well enough to know he was eating the marshmallows first. I find it interesting Gus keeps posting pictures of marshmallows on this page. Perhaps this is trying to point out that this is important.
Gus: We know you are trying to be helpful. But, you didn't answer the question, fella. The question wasn't: Are numbers going to give us the answer and lead us to the correct welcome center/ rest area/ turnout?
The question was: Is the 12 even LOCATED at a welcome center/ rest area/ turnout type of location (like the other numbers— although we would not find the right one by looking for certain numbers— we get it); OR is the 12 located SOMEPLACE else, which is NOT a welcome center/ rest area/ turnout?
PLEASE don't make us wait one to two months for the answer, because prime travel/ treasure hunting time is running out. Providing the answer to this question doesn't give anything away; it's a fair question, I believe. I am not trying to be dense but......
Still clear as mud.
And what watermelon?
So...we're after a man. A man who took off with the Emerald 12, and since he's such a big jerk...why would we want to find him, and why would he hand over the loot?
Dodge knew all the tenants were in on it and communicating their clues to where they had hidden the jewels. Detective Roy Dodge found them guilty of the crime. Therefore they were unable to recover them. So we were able to figure out where they were from Gus's drawings. Dodge took off in search of the 12, beat us to it, dug it up and then dropped his magnifying glass and most likely headed toward Washington to retire and fish everyday.
The clue to Dodge's whereabouts has to be the fact that he is fishing everyday...every day! If he is somewhere every day then I suppose we try and find out where he's fishing.
Gus…I’m sorry, but I’m not a fan of your recent work and I’m worried about your health.
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I wonder if any of these conditions apply.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/metro102599.htm
Follow the link to see where all of clues lead .... Roy Dodge, Washington, holes...
certainly a fishing trip.
http://search.isp.netscape.com/nsisp/boomframe.jsp?query=roy+dodge&page=3&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D9304f21468c4d514%26clickedItemRank%3D39%26userQuery%3Droy%2Bdodge%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.washingtonpost.com%252Fwp-srv%252Flocal%252F2000%252Fmetro102599.htm%26invocationType%3Dnext%26fromPage%3DNSISPNextPrevB%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-srv%2Flocal%2F2000%2Fmetro102599.htm
I see where people could be frustrated with Gus (Gustrated?), but it seems fairly clear that he's telling us that the 12 is NOT at a rest area, as he urges us to question the S/H/M format from here on in. That tells me that a rest area/turnout/ welcome center is probably out of play.
Which makes me go back, like so many are suggesting, to what we know of Dodge, via Pupkin's apartment and his utterances / movements in the book. ("In the book" being paramount here.)
"Move back to Washington" is so compelling as to be un-ignorable. He's already dropped his magnifying glass. It may just a question of which Washington, and where in specific.
Tron, that link is extraordinary, by the way. My own rabbit hole led me to this:
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1979/october_23_1979_152243.html
Nothing to do with Washington -- I was following a hunch about Minnesota.
If the creators of the book have abandoned the welcome center/rest area/turnout locations as a place to hide the 12 -- then it could be anywhere. It was hard to pin down locations already with just the rest areas.
What do they mean "Find the man?" Surely, not an actual, breathing man (Annoying phone calls to total strangers? Knocking on doors? Poking around in cemeteries?) Are we supposed to go around looking at subway stops, engineering firms, random libraries, private property? Was that the point of the Dooley video? To tell people to be obnoxious and trespass? I cannot imagine this is the intended result.
We need some more clear guidance. Marshmallow pictures are not helpful at this point. I agree we need to know if the rest area thing is DONE or is still the destination, however it is arrived at.
More folks should be discussing the Dr. Seuss connections.
Oh, yeah! I forgot, Roy Dodge has a fruit stand on Mulberry Street!
*correction* somebody, anybody, just one person might want to consider the Cat in the Hat connection. (see 6th floor coat rack).
@Tron, you're link clearly has a significance of it's own, but after reading it I can't seem to reconcile it with much of anything related to the character, friend, and jerk at the heart of Gus' marshmallow-buoyed-hunger-angst.
@Snickers!...Snickers! good to see you're still working on this.
I believe Dodge has challenged us to understand both the depth of his thinking and the shallowness of his character. He has used the very thrill of being caught to avoid being found.. His location will be linked to what he thinks only he is able to perceive through Gus' sketchbook. Studying Gus' sketches is our best hope of getting over this current hurdle. Anything Gus is doing now is also a help as it will almost always represent something supremely confidential and keenly on par with the sort of problems that Dodge is use to solving at a glance.
My current question now is what does [the] Rosetta Stone and Michael Jordan have in common?
If Dodge is returning to Washington, where he can fish every day,
he probably would be in a Southern location...since Ice-fishing is
not really that great (other Wisconsin-ites may not agree with me.)
The "peaches" draw me to Washington, GA, where there is year-round
fishing in comfort. (I have also lived in Georgia...Winters are much milder.)
If there is a place in Washington, GA...like a landmark restaurant
or shop that has a light house and/or a snowman...it may have a
large urn outside in which the 12 may have been deposited.
Just trying to understand "the man".
AP
The reason Dodge doesnt like mimes is that they dont "talk". Maybe the man is "hooked on phonics".
In Dooley's video...he is pointing to an arrow then smoke. There's also a sign for a Pier.
Since some fishing pier's are numbered, maybe we would find Dodge fishing every day at a Pier... maybe 8 or 23 or 13 or 31? Somewhere in Washington...or other states with a Washington, like maybe Michigan or North Carolina.
Just when I think I'm going to give up... I'm still searching.
No, seriously. Are you people looking for a real, live person named Dodge someplace? That just sounds..... unlikely somehow. And maybe not safe.
Gus...... I know this has gone on a long time and you are maybe as crazed as the Junior Deducers, but we need some kind of direction here.
I really mean it.
Confused: I'm certainly not looking for a real man. I'm looking for the place "Roy Dodge" may have gone after he pilfered the 12. I don't honestly think that a flesh-and-blood Dodge would greet me there were I to find that place, though. Mainly because Dodge is a fictional character who dwells in the pages of TCWAF. Does anyone *truly* think that a live human has been appointed to masquerade as a fictional character twenty-four hours a day until us Junior Deducers track him down?
At any rate -- it's where "the man" might have gone that I think we need to focus our efforts on, and I think that most others are doing the same. Not that trying to track real-life Roy Dodges isn't kinda fun.
Confused, Eric, Claff et al....
To find Roy Dodge is to find the 12 (the cursed number of the great pirated clock)
I find it with great amusement that you all attached great weight to Gus's name and what
it means to the 8/23 (TODAY!), but find no sollice in finding Roy Dodge outside of the
confines of the book and sitting him down for questioning. If no one but Bud is innocent,
I say, lets interrogate! (Watermellon may be a hint that water boarding may be allowed.)
What was Roy Dodge doing before he met our untrusted Confidential Assistant? I saw he
was searching for Ghost Towns and digging Metro Stations. He may have even been
a decorated War Hero!
Time and curses and forgotten dreams would turn even a former hero into a jerk and a theif.
We know from Idaho that the man has taken it - we must find and take it back.
Gus knows more than what he eats. But we need to know what is eating at him and his
conscience. Why does he shape the book as he does? The book is a Pentagon and Gus
has his connections there in Washington. Does this make Roy Dodge now a spy,
a patriot, or a Tea Party Tottler?
Only by finding him and asking can we know for sure. Congress may be out for the summer,
but there should be no ceiling for our debt to The Clock Without a Face for driving us to the truth.
Tron,
Very inspirational!
And happy Gus-day everyone!!!
I leave with this message, from a great Senior Deducer:
I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material?
Of course, for us it's the 12. For Holmes it was something else he was craving for.
To find Dodge, I think we need to complete the unfinished address that Pupkin started to recite. I wonder whether for this elusive #12 we don't have to drive all over creation anymore, dig up the roots of every tree with a scratch on it, or peer into tomb urns filled with beer cans and soggy McDonald's wrappers. Like many other treasure-hunt books, maybe we only need to write a letter explaining our find, and the prize will belong to whoever (whomever?)gets there first. A P.O. Box somewhere? An actual street address? I agree that we can't just randomly select a number out of the book, but maybe it's spelled out in some well-camouflaged cryptography.
I don't know this, I'm just thinkin'...
Then again, maybe it is in a tomb urn; anyone up for grave-robbing? Is Dodge the ghost of Friendly Jerome? Should we be searching cemetery registries?
Now that would be a twist.
As for what we're looking for (if not for a real man, which is probably harder to find these days than the 12).
The s/h/m system no longer works, but looking at the blackboard in the first floor apartment, I'd venture that we're still looking for a tree marked with a pentagon.
The tree could be in a public fishing area, like a park, close to a Washington.
Since we relied so much in the different states' official websites for rest areas, maybe we need to do the same for fishing areas...
It's a slight adjustment to the logic of the game so we don't have to begin a completely new one.
As from 'Back To The Future', the problem is not how, but knowing where and when....
NOW we have a hint to a possible path to a resolution.....
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Theda, I think you're right to go over Pupkin's utterances and the first floor text for additional hints and clues. Pupkin said that he had a magnifying glass identical to Dodge's glass, and that his (Pupkin's) had been taken on the day of the robbery. Could the magnifying glass in Idaho belong to Pupkin instead of Dodge? I'm not sure what it would mean if the Idaho glass is Pupkin's, but it seems reasonable that we should focus on that item to find the trail.