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23:00

Love is an open door

HTM

Also, as a day 0 hint, the enumeration isn't quite right, but using the technically correct one would probably give the solution away

oAlt

well, "loveless love" is surely "lve" ~~or is it~~

HTM

(This is mainly so that people don't complain when they find the answer and realize that I had cheated a little lol)

Bubbler

I give up

matt

what have you done HTM

Gareth McCaughan

23:02

I can think of at least one plausible other thing "loveless love" could be and at least one local parsing that doesn't put "loveless" together with "love"

anyway, clearly "Loveless Love" is a work inspired by the Kama Sutra and the Gateless Gate (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateless_Barrier) which teaches fulfilling sexual practices by a series of paradoxical questions and confusing stories.

msh210

@msh210 (found 'em)

Gareth McCaughan

well done!

msh210

@GarethMcCaughan thanks

HTM

@GarethMcCaughan To love thyself, one must first hate all else

Gareth McCaughan

Ha.

Sphinx

23:17

Q: a cryptic beehive

Each numbered clue clues a six-letter answer to be entered consecutively (i.e., either clockwise or counterclockwise) in the six squares around the square so numbered. 1. Perhaps a laborist and others return flattened (6) 2. Apply heart of hellebore to make venom? (6) 3. Small bird's leg is fold...

cryptic-crosswords

matt

23:29

why hello there, puzzling platypus

ThePuzzlingPlatypus

I have to go

HTM

@ThePuzzlingPlatypus Yoo, is that the TPP? The monotreme, the myth, the legend?

matt

ah yes, the the puzzling platypus

much like saying "pdf format"

HTM

@matt Darn, now I have PNS syndrome

matt

or "pinto beans"

HTM

23:36

PNS = "PIN number syndrome" for those uninitiated

matt

offically it is called RAS (redundant acronym syndrome)

@HTM how very meta

Avi

I call it the RRS (the Redundant RRS Syndrome)

matt

aaand what does the nested RRS mean?

Avi

"RRS Redundancy Syndrome"

matt

the department of redundancy department

HTM

23:39

Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski

Prince North Læraðr

@HTM hehe

matt

yes, that thing ywhere you can split something you split into five pieces and rearrange with one extra piece into five pieces and rearrange it have an extra piece

HTM

@matt All credit and licensing fees go to John Dvorak for that one

Avi

@GarethMcCaughan Reminds me of thecodelesscode.com/contents

HTM