Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Does Lorick #92 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A life unexamined? A waste! To question all things is my taste For my feared elocution you prescribe execution?? Fine. Western thinking, on mine, will be based! Hint: Why fear death? What is it?

Lorick #91: A life unexamined? A waste! To question all things is my taste For my feared elocution you prescribe execution?? Fine. Western thinking, on mine, will be based! But first, we solve #92 - here it is one last time: I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way! Not forgotten: I'm known by my day. I'm as strong as can be (my dad's wiser than me); in a fight, I'll be first...

Does Lorick #91 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way! Not forgotten: I'm known by my day. I'm as strong as can be (my dad's wiser than me); in a fight, I'll be first to the fray! Hint: I thunder and storm... my fate tied to a worm

Lorick #91, to confound and confusticate! I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way! Not forgotten: I'm known by my day. I'm as strong as can be (my dad's wiser than me); in a fight, I'll be first to the fray!

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #90: We are each of us split in two parts; Though conjoined in one body -- to start! But by moral defiance and alchemical science I give reign to my inner black heart!

Does Lorick #90 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! We are each of us split in two parts; Though conjoined in one body -- to start! But by moral defiance and alchemical science I give reign to my inner black heart! Hint: When I hide its no joke!

Lorick #89: We are each of us split in two parts; Though conjoined in one body -- to start! But by moral defiance and alchemical science I give reign to my inner black heart! But first, we solve #90 - here it is one last time: My interest in ladies is sanguine and those I seduce becom languid. I choose whom to infect -- I'm not one to reflect; my gift, ill received, can bring anguish

Does Lorick #89 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! My interest in ladies is sanguine and those I seduce becom languid. I choose whom to infect -- I'm not one to reflect; my gift, ill received, can bring anguish Hint: I have a way with animals... rats, and bats, and wolves as well

Lorick #88: My interest in ladies is sanguine and those I seduce becom languid. I choose whom to infect -- I'm not one to reflect; my gift, ill received, can bring anguish But first, we solve #89 - here it is one last time: a hedon is happy with beauty pursuit of sensation my duty (if all art is quite useless how when art keeps you youthful?) lose your soul or grow old? don't be snooty

Does Lorick #88 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! a hedon is happy with beauty pursuit of sensation my duty (if all art is quite useless how when art keeps you youthful?) lose your soul or grow old? don't be snooty Hint: My author was wild.

Lorick #88, to confound and confusticate! a hedon is happy with beauty pursuit of sensation my duty (if all art is quite useless how when art keeps you youthful?) lose your soul or grow old? don't be snooty

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #87: Great-nephew of him who was great All power in me concentrates Not a king, not as such... I doth protest too much! As for fame: I've calendrical weight

Does Lorick #87 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Great-nephew of him who was great All power in me concentrates Not a king, not as such... I doth protest too much! As for fame: I've calendrical weight Hint: I'm what you call ... a Republican in name only

Lorick #86: Great-nephew of him who was great All power in me concentrates Not a king, not as such... I doth protest too much! As for fame: I've calendrical weight But first, we solve #87 - here it is one last time: So a heart and a brain can be filled; To find home, and feel courage instilled; At my base, occidental By my flaw, elemental I found end as I ought: to be killed! ...

Does Lorick #86 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! So a heart and a brain can be filled; To find home, and feel courage instilled; At my base, occidental By my flaw, elemental I found end as I ought: to be killed! Hint: there's a dispute over shoes... and a little dog too

Lorick #85: So a heart and a brain can be filled; To find home, and feel courage instilled; At my base, occidental By my flaw, elemental I found end as I ought: to be killed! But first, we solve #86 - here it is one last time: An award to whom war is inimical My assignment: a judgment—political! Compared to four siblings (Or five—don't be quibbling!) I'm most prized, and in truth, most iro...

Does Lorick #85 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! An award to whom war is inimical My assignment: a judgment—political! Compared to four siblings (Or five—don't be quibbling!) I'm most prized, and in truth, most ironical. Hint: I have a dynamite legacy and spark with controversy

Lorick #85, to confound and confusticate! An award to whom war is inimical My assignment: a judgment—political! Compared to four siblings (Or five—don't be quibbling!) I'm most prized, and in truth, most ironical.

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #84: Enlightened I stand, verdigris... a gift from the free to the free I'm a lady encrowned imagined half-drowned my lamp guides the masses to me!

Does Lorick #84 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Enlightened I stand, verdigris... a gift from the free to the free I'm a lady encrowned imagined half-drowned my lamp guides the masses to me! Hint: I harbour the tired, the poor, and ... actually just... the tourists.

Lorick #83: Enlightened I stand, verdigris... a gift from the free to the free I'm a lady encrowned imagined half-drowned my lamp guides the masses to me! But first, we solve #84 - here it is one last time: to mortals, an immortal giver he burned with great light to deliver a traitor yes -twice but pity his vice his punishment hard on his liver

Does Lorick #83 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! to mortals, an immortal giver he burned with great light to deliver a traitor yes -twice but pity his vice his punishment hard on his liver Hint: My name is an eponym for defiance... knowledge... sacrifice... ok fine -- maybe more of a watchword for those things?

Lorick #82: to mortals, an immortal giver he burned with great light to deliver a traitor yes -twice but pity his vice his punishment hard on his liver But first, we solve #83 - here it is one last time: I'm a symbol, a body, a twin a disease with a retrograde spin a light in the morning or else in the ev'ning unfairly, I'm oft tied to sin!

Does Lorick #82 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a symbol, a body, a twin a disease with a retrograde spin a light in the morning or else in the ev'ning unfairly, I'm oft tied to sin! Hint: half of you want to be me, the other half need me - admit it!

Lorick #82, to confound and confusticate! I'm a symbol, a body, a twin a disease with a retrograde spin a light in the morning or else in the ev'ning unfairly, I'm oft tied to sin!