Last century, a remarkable man stated this remarkable truth:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |/|O|E|/|S|I|G|N|/|T|P|I|U|G|/|A|A|R|/|F|N|I|V|ī|M|/|N|E|T|/|D|
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |T|N|U|/|A|N|W|E|/|S|H|I|N|I|(|T|L|/|E|U|I|R|I|I|/|S|E|E|.|N|)|
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |T|H|L|M|B|T|/|S|E|U|B|O|D|F|/|Y|H|E|/|R|T|N|F|I|R|S|T|O|I|/|/|
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |O|H|O|Y|/|U|R|O|T|A|S|/|O|T|S|T|,|B|E|/|T|/|S|E|N|I|N|E|,|/|/|
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
              (author) ====>   |T|/|H|E|B|U|I|/|E|T|N|O|T|/|A|N|/|
                               +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

The letters, punctuations signs, and spaces between words (one space is denoted by a "/") are scrambled, but to help you to figure out the comment and its author (whose name is between parentheses) all you have to do is just rearrange them in the respective column. That is, in the first column of the answer, thereīs a space ("/"), two "Tīs", and an "O"; in the second column, thereīs an "O", an "N", and two "Hīs", etc...

Note: No words wrap to the next line. There may be more than one space at the end of each line.

(In reply to re: Answer. by pcbouhid)

I disagree that Mindy "cheated".  Since the authors name was clearly indicated as a hint, it seems to me that the puzzle  directed the solver to use this to reduce the possibilities.

Given the obscure nature of some ciphers (wasnt there one based on Richard Burtons introduction to War of the Worlds), this seems fair.

Ps, since pcbouchid has so many problems in the queue and they are (including this one) of generally good quality as puzzles, could we ask the powers that be to increase the number released each day?

Posted by goFish on 2005-11-10 07:59:17