{"id":95787,"date":"2016-03-21T18:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95787"},"modified":"2016-03-21T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:07:17","slug":"paris-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/paris-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cut-and-paste puzzle.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ed. Note: our\u00a0puzzle correspondent, Dylan Hicks, is back at it again.\u00a0As usual,\u00a0the first correct answer<\/strong>\u00a0will win a year\u2019s subscription to<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review. Send an e-mail with your\u00a0answers to contests@theparisreview.org.\u00a0<\/strong>The deadline is\u00a0Thursday, March 24,<\/strong>\u00a0at noon EST,\u00a0<\/strong>when we\u2019ll post the answers. Good luck!<\/em><\/p>\n

This latest puzzle takes the form of a collage story, \u201cCastling,\u201d composed of thirty-three numbered sentences lifted from disparate sources: novels, poems, histories, liner notes, yellowed magazine articles, packaging, what have you. The story\u2019s structure and pacing wouldn\u2019t escape pointed critique in the more cutthroat writing workshops. Please make contextual allowances. Below the story are its thirty-three jumbled-but-lettered (and in seven cases, double-lettered) sources. Your task is to match each sentence with its correct source. So, if the sources weren\u2019t jumbled, your answer form would look like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. a<\/li>\n
  2. b<\/li>\n
  3. c \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The exercise might be more fun and stimulating if attempted away from a search engine, but of course that would put you at a competitive disadvantage. In any case, many of the quotations won\u2019t be found online, so you\u2019ll have to do some guesswork or nondigital research. To make things more challenging, sources have been cited very informally, without publishing houses, dates, page numbers, and so on. As experts on Plato, for example, will figure out, a few of the sentences weren\u2019t originally composed in English. Translations, of course, will vary, and at least in that Platonic case the translation used below is one of many published and widely available English versions. We hope this matter of variation won\u2019t lead to complaints from fussbudget xenophobes. Also potentially controversial are some of the short, simple sentences; these conceivably appear more than once in the history of written artifacts. But even the story\u2019s plainest sentence is unique, probably, to one of the thirty-three relevant texts. It should all work out. Sentences have been placed inside quotation marks only if they\u2019re so rendered in the original, or if they come from the middle of a longer passage of dialogue or other material set between quotation marks.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Castling<\/em><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Bob Weinstock was his usual phlegmatic self but an undercurrent of unrest was noticeable to me as we exchanged greetings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        \n
      1. A Somerset Maugham rain, smelling faintly of hibiscus and straight from the South Seas, dripped from his slicker as he mounted my porch.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          \n
        1. \u201cIs she here yet?\u201d he asked.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
            \n
          1. He could never come to terms with being born into a world that basically repulsed him in every detail from the very beginning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
              \n
            1. Plato, by whom he was guided in such matters, often spoke of a life-to-come, but it was difficult to say how seriously he took this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                \n
              1. It didn\u2019t matter, I knew where Bob must have gotten that from, though.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                  \n
                1. His real name was Demetrius and he came to New York from Greece.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                    \n
                  1. I lowered my voice and leaned closer to him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                      \n
                    1. \u201cHere\u2019s my plan.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                        \n
                      1. We will have to unseal the jar if we are to know
                        what is not in there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                          \n
                        1. And we shall play a game of chess,
                          Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                            \n
                          1. He agreed to this, but very reluctantly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                              \n
                            1. No kid wanted to sit across a chessboard from me, as I would always mercilessly destroy them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                \n
                              1. The Greek never got on to the erratic movements of the knights and the sweeping mobility of the queens, but he learned to make a few set, opening moves.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                  \n
                                1. \u201cHow come,\u201d he asked, \u201cwhen I castle, my Rook ends up on the Bishop square and when you castle, your Rook ends up on the King square?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                    \n
                                  1. The hand trick is impressive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                      \n
                                    1. His probing went on and on\u2014for the next five hours.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                        \n
                                      1. A knock sounded at the apartment door.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                          \n
                                        1. [Come you in and shut you the door!]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                            \n
                                          1. She turned the knob, made certain the latch had caught, and then turned toward the bedroom guided only by the moonlight from the open windows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                              \n
                                            1. She was markedly intelligent, with an astonishingly quick grasp of things and penetrating intuition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                \n
                                              1. She saw, and she blushed to see, that if in contrast with some of its old aspects life now affected her as a dress successfully \u201cdone up,\u201d this was exactly by reason of the trimmings and lace, was a matter of ribbons and silk and velvet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                  \n
                                                1. It was characteristic of our friend\u2014was indeed \u201chim all over\u201d\u2014that his fear of what she was going to say was as nothing to his fear of what she might be going to leave unsaid.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                    \n
                                                  1. \u201cAh,\u201d he said, as if things were opening up in a comfortable way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                      \n
                                                    1. \u201cWhat can you say about anything in life\u2014it\u2019s the way you feel.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                        \n
                                                      1. That\u2019s the moment I now call \u201cthe epiphany.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                          \n
                                                        1. \u201cIt\u2019s still too hot in here,\u201d she said.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                            \n
                                                          1. In the plaza the tumult was terrific.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                              \n
                                                            1. Thanks to the facsimiles provided by the Visitor\u2019s Center, the traveler can obtain some idea of what the plaza must have been like.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                                \n
                                                              1. They decided it was time for another glass of champagne, and they drank it quietly, staring at the pearl gray horizon becoming lighter and lighter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                                  \n
                                                                1. It is charming at dawn to see the dark clouds gradually turn white.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                                    \n
                                                                  1. They then both collapsed in a mud puddle, and to me was appointed the r\u00f4le of arousing the neighborhood, unbuttoning the policeman\u2019s clothes and slipping two pillows under his pale, brave head.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
                                                                      \n
                                                                    1. Next day on the way to Washington, I felt I was living in an aquarium.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                                                       <\/p>\n

                                                                      Sources<\/u><\/p>\n

                                                                        \n
                                                                      1. Guy Stern and Everett F. Bleiler, Essential German Grammar<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      2. Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      3. Ted Mark, I Was a Teeny-Bopper for the CIA <\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      4. Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing, The World of Chess<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      5. Max Beerbohm, \u201cThe Mote in the Middle Distance\u201d<\/li>\n
                                                                      6. Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      7. Maurice Zolotow, Stagestruck: The Romance of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      8. Cliff Williamson, insurance agent, testimonial in Firestone ad, National Geographic<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      9. Sei Sh\u014dnagon, The Pillow Book<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      10. Bill Bryson, I\u2019m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      11. Henry James, The Wings of the Dove<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      12. Charles Macomb Flandrau, Viva Mexico!<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      13. T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      14. Bob Dylan, Chronicles<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      15. Wrapper, coconut chocolate-chip Clif Bar<\/li>\n
                                                                      16. Brett Halliday, One Night with Nora<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      17. Ira Gitler, liner notes to Gene Ammons, The Happy Blues<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      18. Geoffrey G. O\u2019Brien, The Guns and Flags Project<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      19. Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      20. \u201cPat Marquis of California Can See Without His Eyes,\u201d photo caption, Life <\/em>magazine<\/li>\n
                                                                      21. Lillian Faderman, The Gay Revolution<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      22. Erica Hunt, \u201cDear Dear\u201d<\/li>\n
                                                                      23. Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      24. Steven Hager, Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music, and Graffiti <\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      25. Thomas Bernhard, The Loser<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      26. Alice Munro, Runaway<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      27. Plato, The Republic<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      28. Rob Spillman, All Tomorrow\u2019s Parties<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      29. Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, Case history: Fr\u00e4ulein Anna O.<\/li>\n
                                                                      30. Jenn McKinlay, Sugar and Iced<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      31. Robert Lowell, letter to Allen Tate<\/li>\n
                                                                      32. Chang-Rae Lee, Native Speaker<\/em><\/li>\n
                                                                      33. Saul Bellow, Ravelstein<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                                                                        Dylan Hicks is a writer and musician. His second novel,\u00a0<\/em>Amateurs<\/a>, comes out in May. He contributes a monthly puzzle<\/a> to the\u00a0<\/em>Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                                                                        A cut-and-paste puzzle. Ed. Note: our\u00a0puzzle correspondent, Dylan Hicks, is back at it again.\u00a0As usual,\u00a0the first correct answer\u00a0will win a year\u2019s subscription to\u00a0The Paris Review. Send an e-mail with your\u00a0answers to contests@theparisreview.org.\u00a0The deadline is\u00a0Thursday, March 24,\u00a0at noon EST,\u00a0when we\u2019ll post the answers. Good luck! This latest puzzle takes the form of a collage story, \u201cCastling,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21168],"tags":[15603,20542,7651,8469,21611,16274,13012,17521,21610,8811,10438,13973],"class_list":["post-95787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-really-difficult-puzzles","tag-citations","tag-contests","tag-games","tag-links","tag-paris-match","tag-puzzles","tag-riddles","tag-series","tag-sources","tag-stories","tag-storytelling","tag-wordplay"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nParis Match: A Puzzle by Dylan Hicks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Be the first to solve this and you win a free subscription to The Paris Review.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/paris-match\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paris Match by Dylan Hicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 21, 2016 \u2013 A cut-and-paste puzzle.Ed. 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