Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Does Lorick #60 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Look for me off the Cape of Good Hope - hear the creak of my timbers and ropes! I sail without wind my crew may have sinned... and my curse has a - forever - scope! Hint: I'm neither Spanish, nor English, nor French...

Lorick #59: Look for me off the Cape of Good Hope - hear the creak of my timbers and ropes! I sail without wind my crew may have sinned... and my curse has a - forever - scope! But first, we solve #60 - here it is one last time: Eldritch horrors I keep but don't speak; Look out! I break brains - strong or weak! Broke my mad author's mind I hold cosmic designs Beware if my power you seek!

Does Lorick #59 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Eldritch horrors I keep but don't speak; Look out! I break brains - strong or weak! Broke my mad author's mind I hold cosmic designs Beware if my power you seek! Hint: If you know of me you may be a geek...

Lorick #58: Eldritch horrors I keep but don't speak; Look out! I break brains - strong or weak! Broke my mad author's mind I hold cosmic designs Beware if my power you seek! But first, we solve #59 - here it is one last time: Sure, I'm twisted and ugly and hairy but my power comes straight out of faery! If it's wishes you want I'm your hand, I'm your haunt Just beware what you wish for... I'm scar...

Does Lorick #58 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Sure, I'm twisted and ugly and hairy but my power comes straight out of faery! If it's wishes you want I'm your hand, I'm your haunt Just beware what you wish for... I'm scary. Hint: My owner was maimed... leaving me!

Lorick #58, to confound and confusticate! Sure, I'm twisted and ugly and hairy but my power comes straight out of faery! If it's wishes you want I'm your hand, I'm your haunt Just beware what you wish for... I'm scary.

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #57: See that man - is he jousting with giants? Nobly horsed? is that steed - noncompliant? With a fool squire that's wise and a love idealized... He is novel, he's mad, and he's strident!

Does Lorick #57 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! See that man - is he jousting with giants? Nobly horsed? is that steed - noncompliant? With a fool squire that's wise and a love idealized... He is novel, he's mad, and he's strident! Hint: He's an anachronism whose tale tilts literature in novel ways

Lorick #56: See that man - is he jousting with giants? Nobly horsed? is that steed - noncompliant? With a fool squire that's wise and a love idealized... He is novel, he's mad, and he's strident! But first, we solve #57 - here it is one last time: I'm an agist; my enemy's old. My lost friends all inhabit a hole I've a shadowy side and a childish pride; I've a world, wit...

Does Lorick #56 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm an agist; my enemy's old. My lost friends all inhabit a hole I've a shadowy side and a childish pride; I've a world, with no mother nor scold! Hint: My self-importance is syndromatic!

Lorick #55: I'm an agist; my enemy's old. My lost friends all inhabit a hole I've a shadowy side and a childish pride; I've a world, with no mother nor scold! But first, we solve #56 - here it is one last time: I'm direct when it comes to current... And my lab is prolific - that's patent! In business I'm cruel The alternates - fools! I'm inspired, I perspire, I inve...

Does Lorick #55 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm direct when it comes to current... And my lab is prolific - that's patent! In business I'm cruel The alternates - fools! I'm inspired, I perspire, I invent! Hint: God may have "let there be light!" - but I commercialized it!

Lorick #55, to confound and confusticate! I'm direct when it comes to current... And my lab is prolific - that's patent! In business I'm cruel The alternates - fools! I'm inspired, I perspire, I invent!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #54: I swore hatred and marched over mountains clever leader: I outflank and surround them empires rise and they fall in elephantine brawl... I was great. I was feared. I was beaten.

Does Lorick #54 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I swore hatred and marched over mountains clever leader: I outflank and surround them empires rise and they fall in elephantine brawl... I was great. I was feared. I was beaten. Hint: Skip, my African fate...

Lorick #53: I swore hatred and marched over mountains clever leader: I outflank and surround them empires rise and they fall in elephantine brawl... I was great. I was feared. I was beaten. But first, we solve #54 - here it is one last time: A circle of light hit the earth A call for repentant rebirth! The scales were removed - the zealot - improved! A champion emerged from the scourge!

Does Lorick #53 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A circle of light hit the earth A call for repentant rebirth! The scales were removed - the zealot - improved! A champion emerged from the scourge! Hint: Faith follows the fall?!

Lorick #52: A circle of light hit the earth A call for repentant rebirth! The scales were removed - the zealot - improved! A champion emerged from the scourge! But first, we solve #53 - here it is one last time: There is nothing that I cannot say Three millennia and more I've held sway I'm a marker of order I'm a tool of recorders Used in books and on signs and in plays

Does Lorick #52 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! There is nothing that I cannot say Three millennia and more I've held sway I'm a marker of order I'm a tool of recorders Used in books and on signs and in plays Hint: I'm a lover of type and of digital life... but could it be I have seen my heyday?

Lorick #52, to confound and confusticate! There is nothing that I cannot say Three millennia and more I've held sway I'm a marker of order I'm a tool of recorders Used in books and on signs and in plays

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #51: Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine. she can sing, and her hair is *de vine* it's such an old story: a boy found her - boring! cast her out! took his sight! love is blind!

Does Lorick #51 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine. she can sing, and her hair is *de vine* it's such an old story: a boy found her - boring! cast her out! took his sight! love is blind! Hint: As an older woman, I decided to adopt, but caregiving is not a strength.

Lorick #50: Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine. she can sing, and her hair is *de vine* it's such an old story: a boy found her - boring! cast her out! took his sight! love is blind! But first, we solve #51 - here it is one last time: Imperial prophet and healer a lover, a mystic, a schemer feared and poisoned, gunned down, thrown in river - and bound so vital, so tricky to murder!

Does Lorick #50 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Imperial prophet and healer a lover, a mystic, a schemer feared and poisoned, gunned down, thrown in river - and bound so vital, so tricky to murder! Hint: A Russian rags to riches to riverbottom story

Lorick #49: Imperial prophet and healer a lover, a mystic, a schemer feared and poisoned, gunned down, thrown in river - and bound so vital, so tricky to murder! But first, we solve #50 - here it is one last time: I'm a lady, both cunning, and fey; Femme fatale? Yes, I curse and betray... Stole the scabbard and sword From my half-brother lord... With enchantments I lead knights astray!