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H for Hullaballoo

JUDE
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S as in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of....

It's not obscure enough as Blacula gets it. Jude the Obscure looks at hypocrisies in class, education and marriage in Victorian times. Many of his points are just as valid, even if the goalposts have moved a little. Espousing lovely Christian values, the Bishop of Wakefield apparently threw his copy into the fire. Mainly I just enjoy Hardy's writing style, tuning out far from the madding crowd.

Over to Blacula!

Wow! Now I have to look this up too!

I’ve always wanted to read that book but keep putting it off because I’ve heard it’s quite depressing (not that I dislike downer books but they’re not what I need at the moment).

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Yeah, it's hardly a laugh a minute book. I know what you mean. I couldn't get through all of the movie Scarlett Street a month or so back. You could see the miserable outcome a mile away, nad I wanted something a little cheerier (even in a noir setting )

D for David

L for Lincoln

If I am not mistaken, a solution guess can be made before any letters are revealed.

My Guess:

Thomas A. Edison

C for Carter

I think Rule 5 could be interpreted to allow a guess on the first round.

It's not in the "official" rules, but we've agreed to allow guesses before any letters are revealed in the past. It's allowed.

I thought so. And, of course, if I am wrong, I can only guess a consonant in the next round.

It'll be interesting to see if Quis is right or not. When I think of Edison, I think of him either by his first and last name or by his entire name with the "Alva" not abbreviated. Maybe they include the initial usually in Blacula's native Australia. Don't know.

I mean, even Thomas F. Wilson (Back to the Future's Biff Tannen and his assorted relatives) would fit this puzzle but is unlikely. I'm not guessing Thomas F. Wilson, btw!

This discussion is very triggering for me because I think I was one of the first, if not THE first, people in this game to have someone correctly solve their puzzle without any letters way back when EDE solved my A MAN A PLAN A CANAL: PANAMA near the beginning of the first round. And I thought that was going to be such a fun, difficult puzzle too.

So obviously there's precedent for it. But fortunately for me this time (and unfortunately for Quis) THOMAS A. EDISON is not the correct answer. Like Paladin, I do not normally associate him with a middle initial/name but it's funny that this topic has come up now because his middle name was actually the answer to a crossword puzzle I was doing last weekend and I had no idea what it was!

So on with the show!

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TL (D - 1) may guess a consonant, a vowel, or solve.
IB (L - 0) may guess a consonant.
Pal (C - ) may guess a consonant.

Quis and everyone else may guess a consonant.

Incorrect letters: L, C.

( ^ I think those are the correct rules. Correct me if I'm wrong.)

I also think of Edison as Thomas Alva Edison.

T for Thompson

R for Reagan

S as in Samuel

In my first guess, I wrote T as in Thomas and then saw that Thomas fit and then thought of Thomas Edison. It was worth a shot.

O for Olive

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Pal (R - 3) may guess a consonant, a vowel or solve.
TL (O - 2) may guess a consonant or solve.
IB (T - 1) may guess a consonant or solve.
Quis (S - 0) may guess a consonant.

Everyone else may guess a consonant.

Incorrect letters: L, C, S.

Could it be Conan creator.......

ROBERT E HOWARD?

that sounds right... but on the off chance...

B for Bakery

And Paladin just crushed his enemies, saw them driven before him, and heard the lamentations of their women!

Yes, it is Robert E Howard!

I've had a book of his short horror stories next to my bed for like two years now and I am verrrrrrry slowly making my way through it.

The writing is florid and fun in that old-fashioned pulpy way but yikes are there a lot of pro-eugenics undertones to a lot of them. Almost every hero is a white (usually of Scots ancestry) man and every villain usually has some sort of almost imperceptible distinguishing feature (often the eyes) that marks them as mixed race, and therefore evil. Sometimes the 'race' that they're mixed with is some ancient evil inhuman primitive race, rather than anything real-world, but still, the constant juxtaposition the pure, unadulterated, unspoiled white hero next to an evil 'other' is eyebrow-raising. It does come across as Howard more being a product of the attitudes of his era rather than the polemic of some Klan member though, so hopefully he would have evolved if he'd lived to today.

Over to you, Paladin.

^^That's a problem shared by pretty much the entire spectrum of Weird Tales writers. I'm currently reading Seabury Quinn, and it's hard to read any of his descriptions of other races/religions without rolling your eyes at the very least.

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