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Cain's Jawbone (Edward Powys Mathers)
"I'm just going to quote an article from The Independent: "Cain’s Jawbone, originally published in 1934, is a murder mystery puzzle composed of 100 pages – all assembled in the wrong order. The only way to solve all six murders in the prose narrative is to reorder the pages and correctly identify the crimes, their victims, and who perpetrated them." Here's the link to the article
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
"After reading too many courtly romances, Quixote's perception of reality is warped, and he seeks to become a knight and restore the courtly chivalric graces. Also he thinks windmills are evil giants."
#spiral poll#the spiral#poll#the magnus archives#leitner tournament#Edward Powys Mathers#Cain's Jawbone#Don Quixote#Miguel de Cervantes
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It's Fine Press Friday!
Red Wise, a Thousand and One Nights-like fable modelled after the life of the classical Arabic poet Abu Nowas, was written by English translator and poet Edward Powys Mathers (1892–1939) and was printed and published by his friend, the Irish printer and wood engraver Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) in 1926 two years after Gibbings acquired the Golden Cockerel Press. It was printed on handmade paper with Gibbings's own engravings in an edition of 500 copies. Mather was delighted with the production and wrote to Gibbings's wife Moira:
You have turned Red Wise into a really superb book; I can't tell you how pleased I am with it. And, . . . one or two people have managed to like the content already. . . .
Indeed, it was well reviewed by several publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, Bookman's Journal, and the New Statesman. The London Mercury thought otherwise, however:
Red Wise reminded me of a Beardsley hag rigged out as a fairy godmother. It is a well-done book, of slight indecency almost hidden beneath the decoration; but the mere ingenuity of the disguise shows the author has spent more time on it than is either healthy or profitable.
We haven't read the text, but we do like the wood engravings and the overall production. And it also has nice endpapers with glittery gold ink!
View more posts with engravings by Robert Gibbings.
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#Fine Press Friday#fine press fridays#Golden Cockerel Press#Edward Powys Mathers#E. Powys Mathers#Abu Nowas#wood engravings#fine press books#fine press printing.
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I just brought a copy of "Cain's Jawbone", a literary puzzle book first published in 1934, where you have 100 pages of a murder novel, but you have to put the pages in their correct order to read the proper novel.
In 89 years it has only been solved 4 times.
Anybody else think I have made a HUUUUGGGGEEE mistake?
Awesome cover art by Tom Gauld, though!
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I jumped on a bandwagon...
I actually bought Cain's Jawbone like last year and was too intimidated to even look at it but then i found out Harper Collins was running a competition in Australia so in the first week of January I decided to actually give it a crack.
It took me basically the entire month, a lot of rereading pages and googling poetry references and muttering to myself about Henrys, but I think I finally understand the story. It was incredibly confusing and very challenging but once I was in it, it always felt possible and it was a lot of fun figuring it out. Even if I felt like I was losing my mind at times. And yes, I did submit my final answer before the comp closed on Jan 31 but, as of Feb 21, haven't heard back lmao so I have to assume I got the page order wrong somewhere.
Anyway, there were a couple of genuinely funny moments in the story and it's undeniably clever. Like, I can't even begin to imagine how you'd go about writing it, but it was a lot of fun to try and solve!
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So... for my birthday, my friends had bought me this riddle-book called Cain's Jawbone; basically the reader has to cut off the pages and figure out the correct order + find out who killed who knowing that there are, I think/hope/beg, 6 deaths and different narrators.
There is also a "prize" for whoever sends in the correct page-order (solving the mysteries) within a certain deadline, because apparently only a few people managed to do it since the 1930s. And it's...yeah
They handled me this evil trap saying things like "you're smart, maybe you can do it", I was like besties...besties thank you but what the actual f
Moral of the story, I've been fussing over it for months now, the contest deadline is in November, and now me and my room both look like this
and I still don't even know if some names refer to people, animals or objects, I'm-
I'm about to explode, actually
#also i think i've learned more about english literature while doing this than in school#that's pretty sad#++ now i hate the name Henry with all my soul#i think goodbye to the contest#but i still want to solve this damn thing#i will not throw away the past months of my life like this#cain's jawbone#mystery puzzle#edward powys mathers#torquemada#kill me next please#txt
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the orange - wendy cope/abundance - amy schmidt/oranges - jean little/oranges - robert morgan/oranges - joseph davidson duddles/an orange sleeve - nari-hira (translated by edward powys mathers)
#web weaving#words#poetry#the orange#wendy cope#oranges#art#paintings#web weave#jean little#amy schmidt#poets#submitted a poem about poems about oranges to a magazine last month#still don’t know if it was selected
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"The Swan" from Cross-Words in Rhyme for Those of Riper Years (1925) by pioneer of the cryptic crossword Edward Powys Mathers, alias Torquemada.
Featured in Roddy Howland Jackson's essay "Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword" in which he explores how the cryptic and modernist poetry (both of which flowered in the 1920s) provide "a uniquely vital opportunity for defamiliarising language".
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Alexander of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Abkhazia)
Augustine of Hippo (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *
Ayyankali Jayanti (Kerala, India)
Constant Troyon (Artology)
Edmund Arrowsmith (Christian; Saint)
Edward Burne-Jones (Artology)
Feast of the Mother of God (Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia)
Festival for Luna (Ancient Rome)
Festival for Sol (Ancient Rome)
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More Rum Day (Pastafarian)
Moses the Black (Christian; Saint)
Uncle Norton the Elephant (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 40 of 60)
Premieres
Animal Crackers (Film; 1930)
Cain's Jawbone, by E. Powys Mathers (Novel/Puzzle; 1934)
Come Clean, by Puddle of Mudd (Album; 2001)
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Novel; 1844)
Do the Evolution, by Pearl Jam (Animated Music Video; 1998)
54 (Film; 1998)
Flying Leathernecks (Film; 1951)
Gallipoli (Film; 1981)
Get Rich Quick Porky (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)
Honeymoon in Vegas (Film; 1992)
I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Speech; 1963)
Let’s Get It On, by Marvin Gaye (Album; 1973)
Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1850)
Mary of Scotland (Film; 1936)
Mickey’s Follies (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV Series; 1993)
Narcos (TV Series; 2015)
The New Mutants (Film; 2020)
Perri (Disney Film; 1957)
Personal, 19th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2014)
Phineas and Verb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (Animated Film; 2020)
Private Lessons (Film; 1981)
Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, by Devo (Album; 1978)
Rope (Film; 1948)
Smile, by Katy Perry (Album; 2020)
Song of the Thin Man (Film; 1947)
Studio 54 (Film; 1998)
Tease for Two (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)
Travelling Without Moving, by Jamiroquai (Album; 1996)
The Truth About Mother Goose (Disney Cartoon; 1957)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Film; 1992)
Victoria (TV Series; 2016)
Walk This Way by Aerosmith (Song; 1975)
Yankee Doodle Bugs (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
Today’s Name Days
Adelinde, Aline, Augustin (Austria)
Augustin, Tin (Croatia)
Augustýn (Czech Republic)
Augustinus (Denmark)
August, Gustav, Kustas, Kustav, Kusti, Kusto (Estonia)
Tauno (Finland)
Augustin, Elouan (France)
Adelinde, Aline, Augustin, Vivian (Germany)
Damon (Greece)
Ágoston (Hungary)
Agostino, Ermete (Italy)
Auguste, Guste, Ranna (Latvia)
Augustinas, Patricija, Steigvilė, Tarvilas (Lithuania)
Artur, August (Norway)
Adelina, Aleksander, Aleksy, Augustyn, Patrycja, Sobiesław, Stronisław (Poland)
Augustín (Slovakia)
Agustín (Spain)
Fatima, Leila (Sweden)
Agustin, August, Augusta, Augustina, Austen, Austin, Austina, Austyn, Gus, Gustava, Gustavo (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 240 of 2024; 125 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 35 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 13 (Wu-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 11 Elul 5783
Islamic: 11 Safar 1445
J Cal: 30 Hasa; Nineday [30 of 30]
Julian: 15 August 2023
Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 16 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Mariotte]
Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 68 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 7 of 32)
Calendar Changes
Rad (Motion) [Half-Month 17 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.9)
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Title: Cain's Jawbone
Author: Torquemada
Series or standalone: standalone
Publication year: 1934
Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, classics, crime
Blurb: Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations...but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers, released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written. The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible - through logic and intelligent reading - to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers.
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Bow Tie Day
Crackers Over the Keyboard Day
Criminal Appreciation Day
Crumbs Between the Keys Day
Dream Day Quest and Jubilee
828 Day
Emerati Women’s Day (UAE)
Emmett Till Day
End of the Fairy Tale Day
Giving Black Day (a.k.a. Give 828)
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Green Shirt Guy Day
I Have a Dream Day
International Read Comics in Public Day
Manifest 828 Day
Mariamoba (Republic of Georgia)
National Bow Tie Day
National Grandparents Day (Mexico)
National Over It Day
National Power Rangers Day
National Thoughtful Day
Nativity of Nephthys (Egyptian Goddess of Love)
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercial Day
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
Russian Germans Day (Germany)
Scientific American Day
Significant Historical Events Day
Tan Suit Day
Watermelon Day (French Republic)
World Day of Turners Syndrome
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Cheese Sacrifice Day
National Cherry Turnover Day
National Red Wine Day
Stuffed Green Bell Peppers Day
Subway Sandwich Day
4th & Last Monday in August
Araw ng mga Bayani (National Heroes’ Day; Philippines) [Last Monday]
August/Summer Bank Holiday (UK) [Last Monday]
International Day of Cyber Attack Ceasefire [Last Monday]
Liberation Day (Hong Kong) [Last Monday]
Motorist Consideration Monday [Monday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]
Notting Hill Carnival (UK) [Last Monday & day before]
Social Justice Day (Antarctica) [4th Monday]
Independence Days
Holy Empire of Reunion (Declared; 1997) [unrecognized]
Luana (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Moldova (from USSR; 1991)
Ohio Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Alexander of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Abkhazia)
Augustine of Hippo (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *
Ayyankali Jayanti (Kerala, India)
Constant Troyon (Artology)
Edmund Arrowsmith (Christian; Saint)
Edward Burne-Jones (Artology)
Feast of the Mother of God (Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia)
Festival for Luna (Ancient Rome)
Festival for Sol (Ancient Rome)
Festival of the Neon Revolution
First Onam (Rice Harvest Festival; Kerala, India)
Frank Gorshin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Hermes of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Julian (Christian; Saint)
Junipero Serra (Christian; Saint)
Marimba (Virgin’s Assumption; Georgia)
Mariotte (Positivist; Saint)
Media Aestas III (Pagan)
More Rum Day (Pastafarian)
Moses the Black (Christian; Saint)
Uncle Norton the Elephant (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 40 of 60)
Premieres
Animal Crackers (Film; 1930)
Cain's Jawbone, by E. Powys Mathers (Novel/Puzzle; 1934)
Come Clean, by Puddle of Mudd (Album; 2001)
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Novel; 1844)
Do the Evolution, by Pearl Jam (Animated Music Video; 1998)
54 (Film; 1998)
Flying Leathernecks (Film; 1951)
Gallipoli (Film; 1981)
Get Rich Quick Porky (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)
Honeymoon in Vegas (Film; 1992)
I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Speech; 1963)
Let’s Get It On, by Marvin Gaye (Album; 1973)
Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1850)
Mary of Scotland (Film; 1936)
Mickey’s Follies (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV Series; 1993)
Narcos (TV Series; 2015)
The New Mutants (Film; 2020)
Perri (Disney Film; 1957)
Personal, 19th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2014)
Phineas and Verb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (Animated Film; 2020)
Private Lessons (Film; 1981)
Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, by Devo (Album; 1978)
Rope (Film; 1948)
Smile, by Katy Perry (Album; 2020)
Song of the Thin Man (Film; 1947)
Studio 54 (Film; 1998)
Tease for Two (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)
Travelling Without Moving, by Jamiroquai (Album; 1996)
The Truth About Mother Goose (Disney Cartoon; 1957)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Film; 1992)
Victoria (TV Series; 2016)
Walk This Way by Aerosmith (Song; 1975)
Yankee Doodle Bugs (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
Today’s Name Days
Adelinde, Aline, Augustin (Austria)
Augustin, Tin (Croatia)
Augustýn (Czech Republic)
Augustinus (Denmark)
August, Gustav, Kustas, Kustav, Kusti, Kusto (Estonia)
Tauno (Finland)
Augustin, Elouan (France)
Adelinde, Aline, Augustin, Vivian (Germany)
Damon (Greece)
Ágoston (Hungary)
Agostino, Ermete (Italy)
Auguste, Guste, Ranna (Latvia)
Augustinas, Patricija, Steigvilė, Tarvilas (Lithuania)
Artur, August (Norway)
Adelina, Aleksander, Aleksy, Augustyn, Patrycja, Sobiesław, Stronisław (Poland)
Augustín (Slovakia)
Agustín (Spain)
Fatima, Leila (Sweden)
Agustin, August, Augusta, Augustina, Austen, Austin, Austina, Austyn, Gus, Gustava, Gustavo (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 240 of 2024; 125 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 35 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 13 (Wu-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 11 Elul 5783
Islamic: 11 Safar 1445
J Cal: 30 Hasa; Nineday [30 of 30]
Julian: 15 August 2023
Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 16 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Mariotte]
Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 68 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 7 of 32)
Calendar Changes
Rad (Motion) [Half-Month 17 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.9)
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La mâchoire de Caïn. Edward Powys Mathers alias Torquemada
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Wayside School Is Falling Down (Louis Sachar)
"Obviously all of Wayside School is a little Spirally -- the weird architecture, the cow invasions, occasional hypnosis, and more -- but this one tells a story of the nineteenth floor. Wayside School has no nineteenth floor. There is one teacher on the nineteenth floor, and only one class, who learn about how to alphabetize every number. Sometimes, new students arrive…"
Cain's Jawbone (Edward Powys Mathers)
"I'm just going to quote an article from The Independent: "Cain’s Jawbone, originally published in 1934, is a murder mystery puzzle composed of 100 pages – all assembled in the wrong order. The only way to solve all six murders in the prose narrative is to reorder the pages and correctly identify the crimes, their victims, and who perpetrated them." Here's the link to the article
#spiral poll#the spiral#poll#the magnus archives#leitner tournament#Wayside School Is Falling Down#wayside school#Louis Sachar#Edward Powys Mathers#Cain's Jawbone
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Cain's Jawbone - Edward Powys Mathers
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This was the process behind my try of solving this book puzzle! I remember not being able to sleep due to all the moved furniture. My sister made some videos of me "being possesed" but neverthless, it was fun.
I bought another copy, hoping to try and solve it once again and seeing how my view of the pages changed over the years.
It's really such an unique experience and I loved every moment of it... Even though I started seeing the pages in my sleep.
#Cain's Jawbone#mystery#books#book puzzle#my books#my bookshelve#book tumblr#books and literature#books & libraries#reading#book blog
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ooooooooo!! i know that book ^^ i follow her on my book instagram hehe i also wanna read that!! o: i’ve read verity by colleen hoover, i thought it was pretty good!! :3 i have…… lots n lots of books on my tbr.. but i am very excited for the third book in my favorite series, nona the ninth by tamsyn muir, n i’m really excited for velocity weapon by megan e. o’keefe, and lots of others… i love hearin u talk so you can share more too!!!!! i love books hehe 🥰💖 -🧸
Yeahh that's how I found out about her book! I love her insta hehehe! Verity is one of the ones that caught my eye, as well as It Ends With Us, All Your Perfects, and Reminds Me of Him. Those were the tops that caught my eye of hers!
Those all sound really amazing! I actually don't recognize any of those but I'll check them out! And if you want my TBR, dear, then I'll give it to you... I love love love talking about books hehehe! Ill put them under the cut though so the post isnt crazy long🧡/Lh
~Circe by Madeline Miller! I read the Song Of Achilles as you know and LOVED IT, and I want to read her other book! I bought it a couple of weeks ago and am just waiting for my eyes to get better so I can read!
~Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell. My friend is obsessed with it and I'm really excited to read it I just keep getting distracted haha!
~Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston! It's a gay book that I really want to buy and read, along with They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera🧡
~All This Time by Mikki Daughtry, The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow, and The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White, purely because their covers are so pretty and they were recommended to be because they're similar to one of my favorite books!
~The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix, which from my understanding is a lot like TSOA and is about Greek Mythology (love!) and the cover is soooo pretty!
~Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers!! Omg you HAVE to hear about this book! So it was published with the pages out of order and not numbered! What you have to do it take out the pages and try to put them in order and solve the murder mystery puzzle! Only three people have been able to solve it, and it came out in 1934! It's soooo cool and I really want to try and solve it! There's 32 million possible solutions and if you get it right, you win $1,335 dollars (Which was claimed by the first and one of the only people whove solved it! I think it's pretty cool hehehe
~We Are All The Same In The Dark by Julia Heaberlin- Also recommended to me from TSOA, and it looks super duper interesting!
~Indigo Magic by Victoria Hanley! A sequel to one of my favorite childhood books thst I never knew existed! Sadly, I doubt I'll ever be able to read it since apparently it isn't available in the United States...🥺
And The Fall of the Readers by Django Wexler!! The fourth book to my favorite book series growing up that I so so soooo want to buy and read!!
There's more (my TBR is pretty long sadly) but I think that's enough😅
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for the book asks: 6, 9, and i'd also love to know if you have any recs for books with a dash of linguistics!
hi, thank you!!
6. what books have you read in the last month?
i read meander, spiral, explode: design and pattern in narrative by jane alison, what we see when we read by peter mendelsund, maria, ihm schmeckt's nicht! by jan weiler. while i've technically read all of cain's jawbone (edward powys mathers) i can't really claim to have finished it (yet? :)) (it's the mystery book where you have to figure out what order the pages should all be in). i also started perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick süskind, and am also in the middle of rereading too like the lightning by ada palmer.
9. when do you tend to read most?
on weekends and in the evening before i fall asleep if i'm not too tired
and a couple linguistically interesting books:
ann leckie: ancillary justice
ada palmer: too like the lightning (i'd recommend also reading this blog post to see whether this book might be interesting to you or very much not your cup of tea)
rainbow rowell: carry on (did this very obviously start out as an hp fanfic? yeah. but the 'language as magic' system is very enjoyable!)
renee gladman: event factory -- the job of the main character is literally "linguist-traveller". can you imagine how jealous i am
elaine castillo: america is not the heart
mark dunn: ella minnow pea
brian friel: translations
and a couple more that are still on my to-read list:
china miéville: embassytown, karin tidbeck: amatka (although it seems that the original swedish version is out of print :( ), arkady martine: a memory called empire
#replies#veikonvihannekset#for the lingfic i had already bookmarked most of the articles that had clued me in that something linguistically interesting might be going#on in those books#being able to add (non-review) notes to books you haven't started reading yet is one of the few features that's kept me from fully switchin#from goodreads to thestorygraph. so i've been using both in parallel for the past year 🙃
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