5/13/2023 0 Comments Cheshire crossing a graphic novel![]() ![]() (Knowing these poems and their poets was gratifying to me as I solved these clues, but I memorized these names and titles under duress while preparing for A.P. I fared far less well with the “Indolent daydreamer of myth.” I needed a lot of crossing letters to come up with LOTUS EATER, but only because I thought of another poem, by Alfred Lord Tennyson before the mythological context of Homer’s Odyssey. ![]() It was luck, perhaps, or just more popular references: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “King of Kings” is OZYMANDIAS, and “I am the captain of my soul” is the last line of INVICTUS, by William Ernest Henley. That’s probably because the literary trivia in its clue set came rapidly to mind. This is Mark Halpin’s second acrostic for The New York Times, and it solved quite a bit more smoothly for me than the last one. ![]() ![]() Mitchell’s big books that are filled with puzzle pieces, like “Cloud Atlas” and “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” so it was fun to discover this more recent work through a different puzzle. ACROSTIC - Today’s passage, which comes from David Mitchell’s 2020 novel, “ Utopia Avenue,” is a brief, lyrical musing on the fragility of physical art and the importance of our collective cultural memory. ![]()
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