To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear ourpart! God's child with His dewOn thy gracious gold hair, and those lilies still living and blueJust broken to twine round thy harp-strings, as if no wild heatWere now raging to torture the desert! But she had, too, a passion for getting new things, and I was sorry for his sake. In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that . And then theres the language barrier; any contemporary solver must conquer Matherss florid, archaic style. Born into a poor family, he wasapprenticedas a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to completeThis time, Sheppard was placed in the Middle Stone Room, in the centre of Newgate next to the "Castle", where he could be observed at all times. Soggy she grew, 'n' she didn't lift, 'n' she listed more 'n' more,Till her bell struck 'n' her boiler-pipes began to wheeze 'n' snore;She settled, settled, listed, heeled, 'n' then may I be cust,If her sneezin', wheezin' boiler-pipes did not begin to bust!" I feel rather frightened. This is a strange book, in that Ive read every page of Cains Jawbone but havent read Cains Jawbone. Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Genesis 4:10) is compared to the greater sacrifice of Jesus' blood at the Crucifixion. That would be delightful. Many names refer to the plant's appearance; "lords-and-ladies" and many other names liken the plant to male and female genitalia symbolising copulation. no, pro. I was the more fed up, therefore, with the incursion of an untidy fellow, a mysopic-looking creature, who clumsily stepped on my foot and touched a chord of memory at the same time. Sarah Scannellposted a TikTok where she purchased the novel at Green Apple Books in San Francisco. Poems composed in his official capacity were sent to The Times. Band, Speckeld. Death closes all : but something ere the end, some work of noble note, may yet be done. He throve on my roses. Paperback. :), Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023, Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2023, It requires a lot of internet work for references, Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2023. The extra-scriptural tradition that Cain used a jaw-bone (whether that of an ass, camel, or otherwise) to slay his brother may ultimately derive, as M. Shapiro and A. 3- I was on my way, for I had come upon the major been very good to me, what with Austin Freeman, Oppenheim and Mary Rinehart. That puzzle being to correctly order 100 pages. They also must rearrange the first 100 pages of the novel in the correct chronological order. : the jewel of the just,Shining nowhere, but in the dark;What mysteries do lie beyond thy dustCould man outlook that mark!He that hath found some fledgd birds nest, may knowAt first sight, if the bird be flown;But what fair well or grove he sings in now,That is to him unknown.And yet as angels in some brighter dreamsCall to the soul, when man doth sleep:So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themesAnd into glory peep.If a star were confind into a tomb,Her captive flames must needs burn there;But when the hand that lockd her up, gives room,Shell shine through all the sphere.O Father of eternal life, and allCreated glories under thee!Resume thy spirit from this world of thrallInto true liberty.Either disperse these mists, which blot and fillMy perspective still as they pass,Or else remove me hence unto that hill,Where I shall need no glass. sang o his love and fondly sae did I o mine. , Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2023. The 22-year-old Din (Navajo) poet is bringing cool-girl, Just wait, people are going to ask where, Knives Out! It produces some of the most dramatic and painful symptoms of any known toxic reaction, making it quite noticeable and a common choice for assassinations and poison attacks. Other characters include the young Jukes - most probably analter egoof Conrad from the time he had sailed under captain John McWhirr - and Solomon Rout, the chief engineer. 42- She lit a cigarette and poured down cocktail after cocktail; sometimes she made little dabbing with a butterfly of white lace to her mouth. Its not easy to place any of the pages in their right places and even following some stretches of thought can be tricky because of the differing viewpoints and happenings. 67- the darker works of Beardley and Felicien Rops, and ringing with the gloat curses of the Head, as we called him, lubriciously gasping in the grip of ether. This content contains affiliate links. The Children's HourHenry Wadsworth Longfellow- 1807-1882Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet,The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair,Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyesThey are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise.A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall!By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall!They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair;If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine,Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall,Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all!I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart.And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day,Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away! Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone, She is at rest. NB This is a new edition of the last 100-page puzzle in Torquemada's 1934 "The Torquemada Puzzle Book". They perceived the barley all in a smoke, and then spied the faithful pair; John with one arm about Sarahs neck, and the other held over her, as if to screen her from the lightning.They were struck dead, and stiffened in this tender posture. Mathers created his first puzzles as games for his friends, but he quickly came to the attention of a newspaper called The Saturday Westminster. To give all - as I had given all to him - was vey bone of my bone. 1from England who won 10 Majors including eightGrand Slam tournamentsand twoPro Slamssingle titles, as well as six Major doubles titles. I expected it to be confusing, but I dont think I really anticipated how hard it would be to understand language from the 1930s, Scannell tells Mental Floss. 85- But wasn't I thrusting my head, when bent on such a business in this street, into the twin mouths of two lions, of Mycroft's brother and of the pale but multidinous Blake? Its first book publication was in New York byPutnamin 1902; it was also published in Britain inTyphoon and Other StoriesbyHeinemannin 1903.Captain MacWhirr sails theSS Nan-Shan, a British-built steamer running under theSiameseflag, into atyphoona maturetropical cycloneof the northwestern part of thePacific Ocean. 99- He said he'd put that right, but he couldn't find the silly old jossers, as Jasmine might so easily have called them. they were both struck dead by lightning. The etymology of her name is not certain, but it is possible that it means "good, pleasant, lovely, winsome. Epigram by H.D.The golden one is gone from the banquets;She, beloved of Atimetus,The swallow, the bright Homonoea:Gone the dear chatterer;Death succeeds Atimetus. 95- I knew, of course, that if I got there in five minutres I would have double the time for my by no means suburban hops at the Cafe Royal, without insulting it and myself with John Montagu's arrangement for an uninterupted session at the gaming table. married once, and undertook a number of relationships with both men and women. His work was controversial in its time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality. He called him a Free Knowledgist, though it didn't seem to me he game much away. Choose Expedited Shipping at checkout for delivery by Tuesday, March 7. O melhor do livro , sem dvida, a capa. The prize for the previous 1000 competition has been won but the current competition (where you can win a 250 unbound voucher) is open until the end of next year I believe. Insert Pepe Sylvia meme here. 73- O triste, triste tait mon me, to inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat cause, cause d'une femme. 21- and there he was, bending over the body of his lastest victim. Thy Servant Dog (1930) by Rudyard KilingThe dogs meet a hound puppy named Ravager and all misbehave, chasing various animals and killing a rat during the unexplained absence of their owners who eventually return with a baby (his name is Digby, p. 87) which is pleased to see the dogs. But I have always called them by their names. He said this was his last day. In 1934, Edward Powys Mathers, the crossword puzzle creator at Britains popular newspaper The Observer, created his masterpiece: a nearly-impossible mystery-novel puzzle called Cains Jawbone. I drove Henry home, and left him. Saul (1855)II"Yet now my heart leaps, O beloved! I'm not sure we can really. Not only do they have to find clues that lead to the solving of the novels six murders (naming the murders as well as the victims, but they also have to do this when the whole story makes no sense at all. TikTok became so obsessed with this murder mystery novel it sold out basically everywhere. It was devised in 1934 by English poet and cryptic crossword compiler Edward Powys Mathers, who wrote under the name Torquemada, and consists of 100 pages from his 1934 collection The . Glad Im a physio not a detective. What, I asked myself, ought I to do? 86- What is removed drops horribly in a pail. 15- John Hewit and Sarah Drew they were both struck dead by lightning. Mas no estava espera de ser uma misso to difcil. ChildrenInyourheartsarethebirdsandthesunshine,Inyourthoughtsthebrooklet'sflow,ButinmineisthewindofAutumnAndthefirstfallofthesnow. Having made a connection that satisfied him of the solution, and together with the Laurence Sterne Trust museum and a lucky meeting with a QI producer, Unbound picked up the book for crowdfunding and publication. According to Roger Millington, author of Crossword Puzzles: Their History and Their Cult, Mathers first encountered crossword puzzles in 1924, but he quickly grew bored with the dictionary clues, or clues that consist of or contain a synonym of the answer, that were popular in American crosswords. he left the thornwi'me. Was tempted to try and solve this but then I remembered that Im currently supposed to be writing my BA thesis. Cain's Jawbone book by E. Powys Mathers. But he was not ; the writer had strangely died to-day. This novel must be solved to be read, and few have been able. An Anthem Of Earthby Francis Thompson..The cumbered gutters of humanity;Nothing, of nothing king, with front uncrowned,Whose hand holds crownets; playmate swart o' the strong;Tenebrous moon that flux and refluence drawsOf the high-tided man; skull-hous-ed aspThat stings the heel of kings; true Fount of Youth,Where he that dips is deathless; being's drone-pipe;Whose nostril turns to blight the shrivelled stars,And thicks the lusty breathing of the sun;Pontifical Death, that doth the crevasse bridgeTo the steep and trifid God; one mortal birthThat broker is of immortality.Under this dreadful brother uterine,This kinsman feared, Tellus, behold me come,Thy son stern-nursed; who mortal-motherlike,To turn thy weanlings' mouth averse, embitter'stThine over-childed breast. The only way to know the answer is to figure it out yourself. Sarahs left eye was injured, and there appeared a black spot on her breast. The cut lines were far too close to the binding I didn't think I would be able to cut them out without damaging the pages themselves, so I returned the book. Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2023, BUT its so fun, 13/10 recommend especially if youre a masochist, Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2023, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2022, ive seen people saying you have to cut out all 100 pages with scissors. II"Yet now my heart leaps, O beloved! Next, we come upon a slightly different subject. 35- (eind pagina?) Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2022. Known as . A Toccata of Galuppi'sBYROBERT BROWNINGIOh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind;But although I take your meaning, 'tis with such a heavy mind!IIHere you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings.What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings,Where Saint Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?IIIAy, because the sea's the street there; and 'tis arched by . And that day he told me it was the birthday of a good one in prison. Try again. They contain oxalates ofsaponinswhich have needle-shaped crystals that irritate the skin, mouth, tongue, and throat, and result in swelling of throat, difficulty breathing, burning pain, and upset stomach. With pleasure, Miss Prism, with pleasure. 80- And at the same time, of course, I wanted to do my best for May. My mariners,Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with meThat ever with a frolic welcome tookThe thunder and the sunshine, and opposedFree hearts, free foreheadsyou and I are old;Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;Death closes all: but something ere the end,Some work of noble note, may yet be done,Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deepMoans round with many voices. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet. and time to vex is now,When talk is safer than in winter-time.Moreover Prosper and Miranda sleepIn confidence he drudges at their task,And it is good to cheat the pair, and gibe,Letting the rank tongue blossom into speech. good alike at grave and gay! Please try again. Proteus was the son-in-law of Iobates, King of Lycia, and sent Bellerophon to him with a sealed message that asked to kill Bellerophon, this is the origin of the expression a "bellerophonic letter". Kennedy, whose submission happened to be opened first; the publisher awarded a special consolation cheque to the other solver, identified as S. Sydney-Turner. Convulsions lead tolactic acidosis,hyperthermiaandrhabdomyolysis. Because of lobeline's similarity tonicotine, the internal use of lobelia may be dangerous to susceptible populations, including children, pregnant women,and individuals with cardiac disease. When John Mitchinson, co-founder of an independent press called Unbound, visited the Shandy Hall museum in 2018, he mentioned to Wildgust that hed recently done a podcast about Johnson. She is told that her enemy, cares not where you lie (p.48; l.18). "Hark, the dominant's persistence till it must be answered to!IXSo, an octave struck the answer. I am not little. Remove the cover and then gently separate the pages and toss the glue binding. And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her(Ruth 2:15-16). Laurus nobilisfigures prominently in classicalGreco-Romanculture. Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks? These are followed bypostictaldepression. According to Millingtons 1977 book Crosswords, Their History and Their Cult, Mathers routinely collaborated with his wife to construct puzzles; once he had decided on a puzzles theme and made a list of words he wanted to use, Rosemond Crowdy Mathers would often make the diagram. 6- I considered that venerable whose winter Achilles thought to take from the lips of Cressida. HASSAN'S SERENADEby: James Elroy Flecker (1884-1919)OW splendid in the morning glowsthe lily; with what grace he throwsHis supplication to the rose:do roses nod the head, Yasmin?But when the silver dove descendsI find the little flower of friendsWhose very name that sweetly endsI say when I have said, 'Yasmin'. 3- My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes. "IIIThen I, as was meet, 92 (bottom)- Yet now my hearts leaps, O beloved!God's child with his dewOn thy gracious gold hair, and those lilies still living and blue. 24 April 1713 - Death day of Daniel Dafoe. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? Soa' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put myhand into the bed and felt them, and they were ascold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, andthey were as cold as any stone, and so upward andupward, and all was as cold as any stone. It has been known asGlossodia majorsince its description by the prolific Scottish botanistRobert Brownin 1810, but recent discoveries suggest its inclusion in thegenusCaladenia. She accepts Lover's Delight from me. 29- On that day, and indeed I was well inspired - I discarded my useless physostigma. Sarahs left eye was injured, and there appeared a black spot on her breast. There is a great deal of disappointment expressed in this poem. 70- It flashed though my mind that the place between Eros and the Queen's Hall had horribly changed since Opren painted it in 1912, also that even if I took the warming of the Ming and got there instantaneaously, and my expense, with islands more correctly known as Efate. 74- The red rose and the white only remained, and these were melting and blurring before my eyes; 51- I paid respect also to a couple of exceptionally large yews. Theres even a new competition: Everyone who submits a correct answer before December 31, 2022, will receive a 250 credit (about $333) to use on other Unbound books. As well as some gloriously. Some Tom, . And Ruth would have little gleaning. Thank you ! The yellow pool has overflowed high up on Clooth-na-Bare,For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air;Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood;But purer than a tall candle before the Holy RoodIs Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan. Cross planets did envyUs to each other, and Heaven did untieFaster than vows could bind. Still I had three more left. what you call. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. We slowed her down and started the horn and watch and watch about,We froze the marrow in all our bones a-keepin' a good look-out,'N' the ninth night out, in the middle watch, I woke from a pleasant dream,With the smash of a steamer ramming our plates a point abaft the beam." Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequorMEANINGI see a better way and approve it, but I follow the worst way. 24- Puffing at Gianaclis and blowing at myself for a fool, I tried to consider my competence, or lack of it. Millions of possible combinations. ive got so much red yarn too i have to have this. We dont share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we dont sell your information to others. 61- I had always been proud of my namesake, the Great Lexicographer, as we, not unnaturally, called him in the family After all he had been born at Colney Hatch. Lobeliais agenusofflowering plantscomprising 415 species,with asubcosmopolitandistribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions. It is written in Victorian Studies that, Hardy recognized that personal relations provide no sure refuge from tragic experience (36: 176). 96- Now I think I will try a cup of what they insolently call Golden Tips, a fine young Tippy Tea. (Still no clue what it says tho). , the only noteworthy Pope of my native land, was demonstrably affected. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective and add more content related to non-recent events. 42 (top)- Just broken to twine round thy harp-strings, as if no wild beatWere now raging to torture the desert! Unable to add item to List. Then youd need to rearrange the letters in Keans to name the creeper in question: SNAKE. Alfred Lord TennysonA FarewellFlow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver;No more by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever.Flow, softly flow by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river;Nowhere by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever.But here will sigh thine alder tree And here thine aspen shiver;And here by thee will hum the bee, Forever and forever.A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver;But not by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. 52- At that moment it seemed incredible taht I had ever been an innocent child, gambolling among the daisies, and thinking, if I thought of it all, that the grave would be as little as my bed. Oh, they praised you, I dare say! O parfum charg de nonchaloir! Why should I think of Henry at this particular juncure? https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m7qwfeRYyeCXmkRnu9xhqTfjPftOAgnK6lmsBIxnt88/edit?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/13eC7nb6QOp6kp5Onu7szlJN7ra8zizLL/view?usp=sharing. There are two recorded solutions of the mystery, which has millions of possible combinationsand only one is right. Yes, Miss. 30- Yes, by James! The Cypher Files: An Escape Room in a Book! I rather relished my sandwich. Probably the best we could do is compile a document on here, and if everyone shared their ideas enough we might be able to get to a fairly certain solution. Now the publisher is rushing to reprint it. Sterne took considerable liberties with both the form and content of his novel. Cain's Jawbone is a legacy from an older timein 1934, the man who wrote the Observer's cryptic crosswords published a novel where all the pages were printed in the wrong order. It was terrible to sit there with only the table in front of me, and to know that murder had been committed. Millions of possible combinations but only one is correct. 73- I remembered the place of my initiation behind the old Port at Marseille, the furtive plush, the little airless secret rooms hung roud with 66- I remembered the place of my initiation into so much that was glowing and slendid; I remembered the clanging fives courts, and the solemn old Hall, hung round with 2- Yes it was a dreadful beauty, as far as I could seee, and I recalled the stark phrases: Which swept away an hundred thousand souls away; yet I alive. 94- It was here, of course, they commemorated Colonel Anthony every year. It's sometimes called the first murder weapon. Orange pekoe, also spelled pecco, or OP is a term used in the Western tea trade to describe a particular genre ofblack teas(orange pekoe grading). Bryant and, of course, May. But a few months ago, something popped up on my Twitter timeline and everything came rushing back. The user @monarchistbookclubdusted off their degree in English and criminal justice studies. A community of people trying to solve Cain's Jawbone, the world's most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle. [ALGERNON is rather taken aback.] . Dont do this, its a waste of time and the dotted line is too close to the edge for this to be easy, youll just end up with a jagged edge. 39- She said it didnt matter what they had done, because she was still an M.D., and shed got another one. 38- Video meliora proboque; but I could not, for all my covert glances, see the modelling of the fossettes of the elbows of the woman sitting so near me. Finnemore said "The first time I had a look at it I quickly thought 'Oh this is just way beyond me.' A space for notes is provided at the bottom of each page. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Scannell posted her first TikTok video about the puzzle in mid-November; that post quickly went viral and has racked up nearly 6 million views to date. 34- I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. Fakes, Quials and Arty. And I really dont care. Earlier on, in the fifth stanza, the woman praises the noble dog, stating how no human can rival, A dogs fidelity (p.49; l.12). le couchant dardait ses rayons supremes et le vent bercait les nnuphars blemes; les grands nnuphars entres les roseaux tristement luisaient sur les calmes eaux.Meaning:the sunset darted its supreme rays and the wind cradled the pale water lilies; the tall water lilies between the reeds gleamed sadly on the calm waters. 15- John Hewit and Sarah Drew they were both struck dead by lightning. This prompted Wildgust to pull out a copy of The Torquemada Puzzle Book, which had been donated by Sterne scholar and trustee Geoffrey DayDay had had it for years but hadnt been able to crack it. I'm sure there are plenty. So I took the time to type one up myself and would like to share it with everyone. 54-Poor old man; to pestle a poisoned poison behind his crimson lights. 87 (top)- Of the old bold mate of Henry Morgan. This 'novel puzzle' contains cryptic clues in a 100-page story about 6 murders. From publishing company Unbound's announcement page: Subscribers to Cain's Jawbone will receive its 100 pages unbound in a box. 17- Hes visiting the Moon for the first time to-day and just the first. She was aMoabitewoman who married an Israelite. 35- I collected myself and mine, and went out to sniff the new air. - do her very damnedest for my guest. 35- For the time being. Yes, Miss. puzzle Cain's Jawbone. 40- Yes, but supposing she came of the family of Jack's visitor, with Thornhill, who promised the opera? Instant Purchase. QUOTE: I Heard No Longer The Snowy-banded, Dilettante, Delicate-handed Priest Intone. Current price is $11.99, Original price is $12.95. These toxins attack the nervous system and cause paralysis. You can still send your guesses to them but it does say that they're only allowing one entry per person so idk if you're allowed to send it more than once and just say . The answer would be kept secret by the Laurence Sterne trust. I was just wondering how you know whether you got the right answer because I can't find any of the answers online? 21- To reckon with Henry! Thomas GainsboroughRAFRSA(14 May 1727 (baptised) 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. I have never met any really wicked person before. AVictorian realistin the tradition ofGeorge Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry byRomanticism, including the poetry ofWilliam Wordsworth. that everything was alive! 24- Roses automatically reminded me of my aunt Cynthia , Google- botulism: life threatening condition caused by toxins. Home-Thoughts, from AbroadBYROBERT BROWNINGOh, to be in EnglandNow that April's there,And whoever wakes in EnglandSees, some morning, unaware,That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheafRound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,While the chaffinch sings on the orchard boughIn Englandnow!And after April, when May follows,And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedgeLeans to the field and scatters on the cloverBlossoms and dewdropsat the bent spray's edgeThat's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,Lest you should think he never could recaptureThe first fine careless rapture!And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,All will be gay when noontide wakes anewThe buttercups, the little children's dowerFar brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!It symbolises springtime. Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. It is known by an abundance of common names includingAdam and Eve,adder's meat,adder's root,arum,wild arum,arum lily,bobbins,cows and bulls,cuckoopint,cuckoo-plant,devils and angels,friar's cowl,jack in the pulpit,lamb-in-a-pulpit,lords-and-ladies,naked boys,snakeshead,starch-root,andwake-robin. The only noteworthy Pope of my native land, was demonstrably affected. Facciamo finta che ci abbia capito qualcosa.