THE HINTS- VITAL TO SUCCESS

[Mindy]

Here's my current thoughts on hints.

I believe the clues are "kennings."

Those are the phrases where you have "and" between two phrases without commas.

"Heavy loads and water high" = Washington.

Subtle hints in the book(s), scrapbooks, etc would be the Washington painting, the frequent mentions of laundry and how much wet laundry weighs.

In TFTW, he said something in a caption like "when I was young, the heavy laundry wasn't a problem, but it would kill me now."

There are a few places he mentions loads of laundry.

You could also make a case for Queen's Laundry geyser being heavy loads and water high.

But kennings is, in my opinion, the way to decipher the clues in the poem.

And the hints in the book help you with the kennings.


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