NPPF Scrabblings in the Dark

sZ keithsz at concentric.net
Tue Sep 9 16:09:42 CDT 2003


I'm throbbing my temples with Hazel's transcription of the luminous
circlet's ouijinx (p.188) and am having a math problem. If she recited the
alphabet 80 times with 17 yielding no results, shouldn't there be 63
letters? There are 61.

If two A's are added you get 'atalanta' 4 times.

Without them, you get 3 'atalantas' plus the 'talant' mentioned on 189.




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