#cains jawbone

[heyits-nessie]

Someone has definitely said this before but I thought it was cool, excuse the shitty picture of my iPad lol

Down in the pile of books I noticed a cover that looked super familiar so I zoomed in

And then I looked up at my bookshelf and realized

This poor man was going so crazy that he turned to trying to solve Cain’s Jawbone😭

I think it’s a pretty cool detail for the production team to add!

[maniacprincessenergy]

normal friends: hey, wanna hang out and maybe cause some shenanigans?

me and my friend: Bro. Bro hey bro. I’m kidnapping you to come help me with the most notorious literary puzzle ever made.

3 hours later:

I had to take down some of my posters :(

[jdsmineralwater]

the book: this is the hardest literary puzzle of all time

me: this is the hardest literary puzzle of all time

the book: this is not for the faint of heart

me: this is not for the faint of heart

the book: it is not going to be easy or quick

me: it is not going to be easy of quick

me, three hours later, only on page nine, already running out of highlighter ink: god i thought thisd be easier

[tryin]

made a website (cains-jawbone.vercel.app) that helps with the cain's jawbone book!

the link does not work in true tumblr fashion.

[sapphiconsaturn]

watching glass onion, and i just noticed what might be my favorite detail only 13 minutes in! when blanc’s in the bath, among the pile of books and papers on the floor is cains jawbone. that’s so funny to me

[readingoals]

I jumped on a bandwagon...

I actually bought Cain's Jawbone like last year and was too intimidated to even look at it but then i found out Harper Collins was running a competition in Australia so in the first week of January I decided to actually give it a crack.

It took me basically the entire month, a lot of rereading pages and googling poetry references and muttering to myself about Henrys, but I think I finally understand the story. It was incredibly confusing and very challenging but once I was in it, it always felt possible and it was a lot of fun figuring it out. Even if I felt like I was losing my mind at times. And yes, I did submit my final answer before the comp closed on Jan 31 but, as of Feb 21, haven't heard back lmao so I have to assume I got the page order wrong somewhere.

Anyway, there were a couple of genuinely funny moments in the story and it's undeniably clever. Like, I can't even begin to imagine how you'd go about writing it, but it was a lot of fun to try and solve!

[midnights-wish]

I recently started trying to solve 'Cain's Jawbone' by E. Powys Mathers.

Thus far I read the pages as they are, to get some sort of idea of what I'm dealing with; I then cut them out of the book. Yesterday I've started compiling a list of every mentioned name and personal description in the book, to make the connections between the characters (and, in some cases, the connections between a name and its respective, otherwise random seeming, personal description) more apparent.

I'm not going to work on this regularly, but next time I continue I want to connect the random bits of poetry which are scattered within some of the pages.

[vixen-academia]

So… I bought “Cain’s Jawbone”. Good luck for me!

[platy-pussy96]

have started on cains jawbone, rip me

at this stage im just this:

[lex-the-mockingbird]

Guess what I've decided to do with my disabled time...

My toxic trait is that I believe I might be able to solve Cain's Jawbone.

[modernmutiny]

.......guess who's back on their Cain's jawbone bullshit?

[nyxvamps]

just pulled out my copy of cain’s jawbone and I’m about to pull a stilinski and get a big ass white board and some string to solve this thing.

[freck-water]

Just purchased "Cains Jawbone" by Torquemada

Yall think I can finish it by tomorrow?

[creamyforestmushroom]

I started trying to solve Cain's Jawbone yesterday and uhh yeah it's a humbling experience to say the least

[broodingandbooks]

no wonder he was going crazy 😭

[donniesdorm]

as soon as I saw cain’s jawbone in Glass Onion i went 😧