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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

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Re: What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

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might want to make the link more specific: https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-stran...

Calling @dang ... (URLs can't be edited by non-admins like me)

Assuming you submitted the actual URL, it's a canonical link problem:

  
That's the canonical link in the page, which points to nothing. Which I'd guess HN rewrites as just the root (what is currently being pointed to).

Re: What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

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I am not trolling here, just for posterity. =)

I once bought about a dozen Doctor Who paperbacks at a garage sale. This was probably 1995.

Half of them contained mysterious hand-written notes which related to "keys".

Cryptic sentences on each paper like, "The fifth key is hard to find, and has many chilly neighbors".

To this day, I have no idea what it was about. Maybe the books and notes are on a shelf at my parent's house somewhere, and I'll take another pass at it some day.

ETA: Possibly references to this serial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_of_Marinus#Plot

Which had 0 to do with any of the books, as I recall. I would swear there was more than 5 notes about keys as well. Guess I'll have to dig them up and find out.

Re: What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

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post #9

I am not trolling here, just for posterity. =) I once bought about a dozen Doctor Who paperbacks at a garage sale. This was probably 1995. Half of them contained mysterious hand-written notes which related to "keys". Cryptic sentences on each paper like, "The fifth key is hard to find, and has many chilly neighbors". To this day, I have no idea what it was about. Maybe the books and notes are on a shelf at my parent'…

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