Dragaera

A Riddle

Maximilian Wilson wilson.max at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 16:12:12 PDT 2005

On Apr 8, 2005 5:01 PM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Joshua Kronengold wrote:
> 
> > Hermes's silver snake,
> > I speed but do not slither,
> > Burrow but do not dig.
> > What am I?
> 
> I thought "caduceus", the snake-twined staff or wand Hermes carries as he
> leads souls to Hades, but that seems rather obscure.

I thought of a bullet.

-- 
I die! I mis-remember my friend's telephone number and dial
into a hydroelectric dam's power line, electrocuting myself.
My roommates mistake my flailing spasms for sign language,
coincidentally describing a delicious recipe for fried tungsten
with petroleum jelly. They try the recipe.
All die! O, the embarassment.