Thanks, Patrick, Doug, Sheila. Patrick, I mean that the puzzle consumes us
and we are unsatisfied until the solution arises but then there is a kind
of emptiness. It has disappeared in a sense. I do mean ‘chock in’ like the
bits of a lock on a safe, say. Slimming may yet happen, Doug, it is a bit
of a ramble.
Bill
On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 8:33 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> Hey Bill thanks fitting as I am rather into Suguru at the moment and
> crosswords with my partner Janet and other odds puzzles we pensioners!!
>
> I find rather satisfying not unsatisfying for solving a challenging puzzle
>
> chock in? is new to me or is it clock in?
>
> Too hard,
>
> you swim to no shore
>
> yes that feeling!
>
> On 07/11/2018 01:15, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Connundrums 2
> >
> >
> > Why do we seek
> >
> > to be confounded?
> >
> >
> > Why is untangling
> >
> > unsatisfying?
> >
> >
> > Puzzles fizzle
> >
> > when solved
> >
> >
> > The attraction
> >
> > that captured you so
> >
> >
> > collapses
> >
> > before your eyes
> >
> >
> > frees you
> >
> > from mind grip
> >
> >
> > Nine letters tumble
> >
> > about in Target
> >
> >
> > snaking
> >
> > through your brain
> >
> >
> > sometimes taking
> >
> > a good hour
> >
> >
> > over
> >
> > breakfast
> >
> >
> > before the letters
> >
> > chock in
> >
> >
> > That word
> >
> > now looking so natural
> >
> >
> > How could you not
> >
> > have seen it straightaway?
> >
> >
> > Sudoku’s numbers,
> >
> > bereft of arithmetic function
> >
> >
> > sit only as ciphers
> >
> > waiting for you
> >
> >
> > to dart in with pencil
> >
> > among the bold
> >
> >
> > the simple aim:
> >
> > complete the grid
> >
> >
> > close off those rows
> >
> > fill those sub-squares
> >
> >
> > Make finite
> >
> > progress
> >
> >
> > Thing is you want
> >
> > to be held up
> >
> >
> > and at the same time
> >
> > to crack it
> >
> >
> > as you submit
> >
> > to the puzzle’s thrall
> >
> >
> > Too easy,
> >
> > no challenge
> >
> >
> > Too hard,
> >
> > you swim to no shore
> >
> >
> > So what do you
> >
> > really want?
> >
> >
> > What
> >
> > a connundrum
> >
> >
> > bw
> >
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