It’s Sunday and Linda says: “Welcome to the seventh prompt for Just Jot it January 2024! Today’s prompt is brought to us by Dan Antion. Much appreciated, Dan! Please be sure to visit Dan’s blog to read his posts and say hello. And follow him while you’re there if you’re not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 7th, 2024 is “curious.” Use the word “curious” any way you’d like. Enjoy!“
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Curiosity killed the cat
Unfortunately it was a car knocked it flat.
Riddles always interest me
I get caught up by curiosity
Oh! It’s so odd so curious
Unable to resist we let our hearts be boss
So intriguing I am curious
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Am I a curious person? Well you can be answered two ways. You might find me curious, odd or unusual….. Or I might strike you as curious as in always asking questions… curious to know the facts, the outcome, the reason or the resolution. I am a little curious in both senses of the word.
Then there are books I will mention two : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story “The Adventure of Silver Blaze“. Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children.
The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who is described as “a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties” living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher’s condition is not stated, the book’s blurb refers to Asperger syndrome (which today would be described as an autism spectrum disorder), high-functioning autism, or savant syndrome. In July 2009, Haddon wrote on his blog that “The Curious Incident is not a book about Asperger’s…if anything it’s a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder”, and that he, Haddon, is not an expert on the autism spectrum or Asperger syndrome.
The book uses prime numbers to number the chapters, rather than the conventional successive numbers. Originally written in English, it has been translated into 36 additional languages.
informafion Wiki It is a great book I can highly recommend it 😃.
Then of course there is The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey’s Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.
The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841. Queen Victoria read the novel that year and found it “very interesting and cleverly written”.
The plot follows the journey of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, whose lives are thrown into disarray and destitution due to the machinations of an evil moneylender. Information Wikipedia Another great book.
Well that’s me done for this prompt..
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