Guest Submission from Solo Amerigo: When a Solve Fails but the Clues Survive
When a Solve Fails but the Clues Survive: Yerkes Observatory and the Search for a Lion’s Share Mechanism By Solo Amerigo The problem facing many Lion’s Share searchers may not be a lack of clues. It may be a lack of understanding about how the clues are meant to work together. Like most searchers, I began by looking for destinations. A name pointed to a place. A place pointed to another place. A historical reference suggested a region. A line in the poem seemed to confirm a direction. The work felt cumulative, and in one sense it was. The book produced connections, and those connections produced more connections. The trouble was that many of them seemed to stop just short of becoming useful. They formed chains, but the chains did not always lead to a final place. They created density, but not necessarily direction. The Lion’s Share material in There’s Treasure Inside contains an enormous amount of seemingly unrelated information. Searchers have found historical references,...
