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2026-05-16
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Puzzle

Summary:

This is a puzzle. That's it.

Notes:

(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

 [The hidden message was encoded: message=>key1=>key2=>key3 using Vigenere Cipher, so decode in the reverse. Theme: poetry.] 

 

<<A ztwj hdnvw qltzi xmlht. Bji X slx pss. Jkn A rukz jjm rlfsi ntsf. >>

…

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Your soul is a chosen landscape

Singing all the while, in the minor mode

With the calm moonlight, sad and lovely

The eventual arpeggio, drifting into silence…

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Notes:

Hints:

 

[Key #1] 

It can be said that moonlight is beautiful, but alas, it can last only five minutes, and with those final chords, silence commences. 

 

[Key #2]

You’d easily find this out after finding the first key and using it to decode the excerpt, or perhaps your search engine is stupid. 

 

[Key #3]

What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times?

The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know.

We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night.

We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings.

We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of the year.

 

In sum, what ought to be said here? 

 

[4]

Lengths: 8 6 4

 

[5]

If you’re really stuck, know that only one of the keys is a word (aka key#2), whereas the rest are a combination of letters; try your best to decipher the hints if you still don’t understand. Or comment.