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| 1128.1 | I hav no id a what this m ans... | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | Pentium: Intel's Blew-Chip Special | Mon Jan 09 1995 06:04 | 1 |
| ...P rhaps it r f rs to som sort of k yboard probl m? Hop this h lps.
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| 1128.2 | | SEND::PARODI | John H. Parodi DTN 381-1640 | Mon Jan 09 1995 06:53 | 7 |
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No, it means "to hide by misdirection." "The Purloined Letter" was a
short story (by Poe? it's been a long time...) in which a stolen letter
was placed in a different envelope and stuffed in a book. Numerous
searches of the room failed to reveal it, because of this trick.
JP
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| 1128.3 | Must be a variation | RICKS::MIKEH::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Mon Jan 09 1995 07:02 | 7 |
| > was placed in a different envelope and stuffed in a book. Numerous
I thought it was left on the (fireplace) mantel in plain view.
mikeP
ps That is mantel and not mantle... which is sort of a play on words.
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| 1128.4 | Poe is an Italian river | PEKING::SULLIVAND | Not gauche, just sinister | Mon Jan 09 1995 07:06 | 5 |
| must have dismantled it, then...
thanks v. much for your prompt replies
Dave
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| 1128.5 | | SMURF::BINDER | gustam vitare | Mon Jan 09 1995 07:07 | 7 |
| The old purloined letter trick is to conceal something in such an
obvious place that no one would ever think to look for it there. In
the story, a critical letter disappeared and was believed stolen - but
it had actually been merely "relocated" in its owner's very own study,
and left in plain view.
-dick
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| 1128.6 | | SMURF::BINDER | gustam vitare | Mon Jan 09 1995 07:08 | 3 |
| Re .4
Do they do potatoe farming on the Poe River?
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| 1128.7 | | DOCTP::BINNS | | Mon Jan 09 1995 07:20 | 9 |
| ....and was the hiding of the letter not the result of a bet between two
people about whether or not one could successfully hide the letter from
the other, in the selected room?
In any case, the point was that seeker, too clever and systematic by
half in his search, simply couldn't imagine it would be in plain view
on the desk.
Kit
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| 1128.8 | You say tomatoe and I say... | PEKING::SULLIVAND | Not gauche, just sinister | Mon Jan 09 1995 07:34 | 2 |
| Ah, the Dan Quayle spellchecker!
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| 1128.9 | | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Mon Jan 09 1995 08:58 | 7 |
| To be fair to the searchers, the letter had been folded inside out,
and a different `letter' was showing on the outside.
It's by E.A. Poe, all right, and I think its name *is* "The Purloined
Letter".
Ann B.
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| 1128.10 | In my vi w, you folks ar all killjoys... :-) | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | Pentium: Intel's Blew-Chip Special | Mon Jan 09 1995 10:05 | 1 |
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| 1128.11 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Mon Jan 09 1995 12:07 | 7 |
| I think it is somewhere in G.K. Chesterton, "Where do you hide a
leaf"? "In a forest".
The reference was to concealing a murder by a massacre. I don't
have time to find the exact reference at the moment since I have a
project manager irate about project deadlines. Back to hacking DCL
scripts.
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| 1128.12 | FREEZE, FILCHER! | AKOCOA::MACDONALD | | Tue Jan 31 1995 11:09 | 8 |
| To purloin is to steal. It can be used in a general sense, not just in
the sense of "steal by indirection" or some such. So, for example, if
someone mugged you on the street you could, if you were so inclined,
(horizontally?) call out, STOP, PURLOINER!! One in a thousand might
understand what you meant. These would be the people who had read AND
retained their Po.
Bruce
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