Problem Nine: Gadsby
Sep 26th, 2006 by Percy
If youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.” A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.
What’s significant about this quotation from a book (and this conundrum)?
Source: Gadsby by E. V. Wright
Update: Solutions are posted
Are you sure this is a puzzle? Now I’m really clueless…
This one’s simple in that one Google search on Gadsby totally gives away the answer. I trust no one to do such a dishonourable deed …
aahhhhh….
I’ll say no more.
wow, thats crazy
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