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Which Shakespeare play is funnier: Hamlet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Clue: This is according to a user’s guide to Hamlet
Answer: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Michael Pennington, Hamlet: A User’s Guide (1997), p. 18.
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LAST QUARTER (CONTINUOUS)"Eventide — An indefinite period." —Thomas B Neely, The Illustrative Lesson Notes (1894)
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 Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA by Friedrich NietzscheWhen Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,—and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun. Suddenly, a shot rang out.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the puzzle image below to reveal one possible solution.
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Yes, you may . . . on one condition:
"You must promise me a favour in return." —C. N. Williamson, "The Adventure of Monica," 1905
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“Your boat must be three quarters of a mile away.” —Herbert Warren Wind
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: This item was inspired by Cynthia Ozick's amazing blurb for Frederic Tuten's Self Portraits: Fictions: "An amazing, glittering, glowing, Proustian, Conradian, Borgesian, diamond-faceted, language-studded, myth-drowned dream!"
Barely Able writes: I loved this blurb flow chart. It reminds me of the paint swatches at WAL-MART, which are probably the most perfect thing in the store. Which makes me want to destroy them. Or rearrange their perfect order. This is a Luciferian impulse. Did Lucifer really want to destroy? Or did he want to merely re-arrange. En tout cas, it's clear that re-arrangement is a damnable offense. A primordial offense. Perhaps the Ur-Offense. What is literary criticism but an attempt to rearrange artistic works in an imaginary space. It's hilarious. The books stay right where they are put. But if the re-arranger is particularly successful he might have certain books banned or sent to book gulags (thrift stores or worse). In which case, the books find it hard to reproduce. And then they may go extinct. So, overall, I think God is right. He should destroy Satan for being the Great Interior Decorator that he so clearly is. Satan is all about fussiness. There is no sin that does not first begin in fussiness.
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Above, Mike is caught staring at the sunset over Moel y Gest mountain in Wales. Below, the photo Mike took.
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LAST QUARTEROne-half of the semicolon appears to be illuminated by the reading lamp. The fraction of the semicolon's dot that is illuminated is decreasing, like the sound of waves during low tide. This semicolon is sometimes called Third Quarter. The left half of the semicolon appears lighted, and the right side appears dark. During the time between the Full Semicolon and the Last Quarter Semicolon, the part of the semicolon that appears lighted gets smaller and smaller every day, like a healing wound. It will continue to shrink until the New Semicolon.
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