Talk:For Want of a Clue, Part 2/@comment-31753487-20170416094742/@comment-71.197.218.118-20180531054200

It's also interesting that 4D and 4C are (as far as I can tell) 1 o'clock and 3 o'clock if you look at the illustration (as I am doing it, you look for the "hour hand" on a thing that looks round-ish as a clock face, so the axehead in 4D points sort of 1 o'clock and the lightning in 4C points roughly at 3 o'clock). 9S looks like 5 o'clock (the stone with a glowing star), but that's the same as 9C (hourglass on circular table), so maybe there's another way to read the illustrations as clock faces (using something else as reference for orientation than 12 o'clock = up?). Plausibly we could take 9S as 2 o'clock somehow.

If the "one line of each couplet at the beginning matches a card and the next matches the next card in the sequence" theory is right, along with the theory that the clock hour values are supposed to be in order 12 o'clock to 11 o'clock, then we need to somehow associate "Now this maze will take your measure" with AD (4 o'clock, presumably). I don't exactly see the association. The top of Sam's sword is "taken", I guess? But that's not as clean as the associations with the other ones, and I'm not sure how you would connect AD with 9C (5 o'clock) with any of the vellum unless you get real abstract with the associations.

We should also consider this along with the "uppercase/lowercase" theory (presuming we put the vellum strips in the boxes in the Bully Pulpit, with higher up ones being capital and lower ones being lowercase) if you start with the first box = 1 o'clock. But it looks like it works with the first three if you start with 12 o'clock, which is supported with "(W/D)EPART AT NOON" from the Theseus guide.