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I thought I'd let this one out.
Since Forrest knew Morse Code, I had the idea that he might have used it in the Poem.
Remember that he made an issue of commas, and even removed them from one of his Scrapbooks.
Then there's also this, from one of Jenny Kyle's "Featured Questions."
https://mysteriouswritings.com/featu...-rainy-season/
Forrest's answer starts out with this:
"Since I hid my treasure I can’t get by with any malfunctions in my writing. I received emails from two English teachers who criticized my use of commas and semi colons, and each one corrected me in a different way."
Bold is mine to highlight the hints.
Here's the rules.
- use commas for dashes
- use periods for dots
- use only the punctuation marks at the end of the lines.
Now, I needed some means to break these apart to form letters.
This is where the commas in the middle of the lines comes in, they are the "breaks" (pauses in Morse Code) that I needed.
But there's more to it, the "different way" part. And that's where the semi colons come in.
So go down the Poem and pick these out.
Line 2 - comma at the end = dash
Line 3 - comma at the end = dash
Line 4 - period at the end = dot
Line 6 - comma at the end = dash
Line 7 - comma in the middle = letter break
That gives a dash dash dot dash (- - . -) That's a Q.
Line 7 (again) - period at the end = dot
Line 8 - period at the end = dot
Line 9 - comma at the end = dash
Now here's where it starts the "different".
Line 10 ends in that semi colon.
This brought up the QUESTION of what to do with this.
Well, it's a dot dash, and furthermore it's an automatic break, before and after, a new letter on it's own. (Dot dash is an "a".)
This post is starting to act funky, so I'll continue it in a reply post.
So line 9 is the end of a letter, and that's dot dot dash ( . . - ), which = U.
(Coming after a Q already starts to make sense.)
Then Line 10, with it's semi colon at the end, = A
And now we start a new letter because of that automatic break, before and after.
Since Forrest knew Morse Code, I had the idea that he might have used it in the Poem.
Remember that he made an issue of commas, and even removed them from one of his Scrapbooks.
Then there's also this, from one of Jenny Kyle's "Featured Questions."
https://mysteriouswritings.com/featu...-rainy-season/
Forrest's answer starts out with this:
"Since I hid my treasure I can’t get by with any malfunctions in my writing. I received emails from two English teachers who criticized my use of commas and semi colons, and each one corrected me in a different way."
Bold is mine to highlight the hints.
Here's the rules.
- use commas for dashes
- use periods for dots
- use only the punctuation marks at the end of the lines.
Now, I needed some means to break these apart to form letters.
This is where the commas in the middle of the lines comes in, they are the "breaks" (pauses in Morse Code) that I needed.
But there's more to it, the "different way" part. And that's where the semi colons come in.
So go down the Poem and pick these out.
Line 2 - comma at the end = dash
Line 3 - comma at the end = dash
Line 4 - period at the end = dot
Line 6 - comma at the end = dash
Line 7 - comma in the middle = letter break
That gives a dash dash dot dash (- - . -) That's a Q.
Line 7 (again) - period at the end = dot
Line 8 - period at the end = dot
Line 9 - comma at the end = dash
Now here's where it starts the "different".
Line 10 ends in that semi colon.
This brought up the QUESTION of what to do with this.
Well, it's a dot dash, and furthermore it's an automatic break, before and after, a new letter on it's own. (Dot dash is an "a".)
This post is starting to act funky, so I'll continue it in a reply post.
So line 9 is the end of a letter, and that's dot dot dash ( . . - ), which = U.
(Coming after a Q already starts to make sense.)
Then Line 10, with it's semi colon at the end, = A
And now we start a new letter because of that automatic break, before and after.
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