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Solving A Complex Verbal Puzzle
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: tweasedale-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
11 Mar 2004 16:01 PST
Expires: 10 Apr 2004 17:01 PDT Question ID: 315852 |
Using the Cryptopoem by Mallarme, provided below (English translation is on the right) can you find the "THE NAME OF THE CIGAR" WHICH is hidden within the cryptopoem: A CRYPTOPOEM BY MALLARME: THE CIGAR SONNET Toute l?ame resumee The whole soul summed-up/begun again Quand lente nous l?expirons When slowly we breathe it out Dans plusieurs ronds de fumee In several smoke-rings Abolis en autres ronds Vanishing in other rings Atteste quelque cigare Bears witness to some cigar Brulant savament pour peu Burning cunningly so long Que la cendre se separe As the ash detaches itelf De son clair baiser de feu From its bright kiss of fire Ainsi le choeur des romances Thus the chorus of romances A la levre vole-t-il Flies to the lip Exclus-en si to commences Exclude from it if you begin Le reel parce que vil The real because (it is) base Le sens trop précis rature Too precise a meaning erases Ta vague litterature Your vague literature |
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