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From June 30 --
("Will this be on the test?") Frame Tale One:
Frame Tale Two:
Barry Sharples
on his version of the
Kaleidoscope Puzzle --
Background:
"A possible origin of this puzzle is found in a dialogue between Socrates and Meno
written by the Greek philosopher,
Plato, where a square is drawn
inside a square such that
the blue square is twice the area
of the yellow square.
 Colouring the triangles produces a starting pattern which is a one-diamond figure made up of four tiles and there are 24 different possible arrangements."  "The king asked, in compensation for his toils during this strangest of all the nights he had ever known, that the twenty-four riddle tales told him by the specter, together with the story of the night itself, should be made known over the whole earth and remain eternally famous among men." Frame Tale Three:Finnegans Wake -- "The quad gospellers may own the targum but any of the Zingari shoolerim may pick a peck of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne." |
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