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Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature?
Try this Lorick on for size:
A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!
Hint: his father ghosted him.
Answer: Hamlet! Get it?
Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time!
If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen!
E'en subscribe! If you dare...
Try this Lorick on for size:
A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!
Hint: his father ghosted him.
Answer: Hamlet! Get it?
Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time!
If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen!
E'en subscribe! If you dare...
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Does Lorick #103 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! An infallible prophetess weaving Prognoses that none are believing of horses and cities and a girl that's too pretty All ignored - and it's SO aggrieving! Hint: I'm not to be confused with Chicken Little. I'm right!
Lorick #103, to confound and confusticate! An infallible prophetess weaving Prognoses that none are believing of horses and cities and a girl that's too pretty All ignored - and it's SO aggrieving!
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #102: I'm a hero, by which I mean strong; I'm amazed! ...and confuse right from wrong. I killed a bull dead and was saved by a thread; and my list of debacles is long!
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #156: I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified.
Does Lorick #156 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified. Hint: A promethean saviour, I'm known for my labour
Lorick #155: I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified. But first, we solve #156 - here it is one last time: The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation!
Does Lorick #155 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation! Hint: A spectre is haunting Europe
Lorick #154: The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation! But first, we solve #155 - here it is one last time: I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King!
Does Lorick #154 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King! Hint: I don't say a lot but my aid's oft besought
Lorick #154, to confound and confusticate! I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King!
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #153: a carpenter, thatcher, and mason of the three, two were murderously chastened but their big wily foe, when it had a third go, learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened
Does Lorick #153 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! a carpenter, thatcher, and mason of the three, two were murderously chastened but their big wily foe, when it had a third go, learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened Hint: a story with structural salience
Lorick #152: a carpenter, thatcher, and mason of the three, two were murderously chastened but their big wily foe, when it had a third go, learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened But first, we solve #153 - here it is one last time: he's a guardian who never asks why ...likes a bone and a nice lullaby he has multiple heads; keeps the live from the dead... his a labour not many would try!
Does Lorick #152 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! he's a guardian who never asks why ...likes a bone and a nice lullaby he has multiple heads; keeps the live from the dead... his a labour not many would try! Hint: steady there... who's a good boy?
Lorick #151: he's a guardian who never asks why ...likes a bone and a nice lullaby he has multiple heads; keeps the live from the dead... his a labour not many would try! But first, we solve #152 - here it is one last time: every lifespan's a treasure one we'll stretch and then measure - weird judges, we three that live by THE tree - without malice dispensing displeasure
Does Lorick #151 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! every lifespan's a treasure one we'll stretch and then measure - weird judges, we three that live by THE tree - without malice dispensing displeasure Hint: we are not what you seek if you think we are Greek
Lorick #151, to confound and confusticate! every lifespan's a treasure one we'll stretch and then measure - weird judges, we three that live by THE tree - without malice dispensing displeasure
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #150: my man needs his courage to stick! once begun, we must murder, and quick... but this guilty expression fuels my sanguine obsession - Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch!
Does Lorick #150 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! my man needs his courage to stick! once begun, we must murder, and quick... but this guilty expression fuels my sanguine obsession - Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch! Hint: my tale's full of Scots... and indelible blots!
Lorick #149: my man needs his courage to stick! once begun, we must murder, and quick... but this guilty expression fuels my sanguine obsession - Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch! But first, we solve #150 - here it is one last time: I'm cheaper to pay than to fight my terror put Romans to flight a warlord, ahorse, an unstoppable force ...'till I died on my own wedding night
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