Unsolved Mysteries
TATION 2YD’s last Passing Parade programme exploited to the full the retention value of incompleteness. Nothing occupies so much valuable mem-ory-space as the serial we didn’t finish
hearing or the tram-conversation we left in mid-career or the chance acquaintance who suddenly vanished from our orbit. And now I must add to my mental junkcollection the trio of History’s Unsolved Mysteries told me with so much gusto the other Tuesday night. The first poser is the one most calculated to employ my wakeful nights, since I missed the first part of the exposition. It concerns two pairs of feet coming away from a wrecked aeroplane, and I am haunted not only by not knowing why there should -be two sets of feet, but also by not knowing why — there should not be two sets of féet. In the next I was present from the beginning, and am well primed with reason¢ for regarding the discovery of a petroleum barrel sunk in arctic ice never before trodden by human foot as very mysterious indeed. The strange affair of Conan Doyle, the Great Houdini, the suspended slate and the moving; ball is much more obviously and excitingly mysterious, and so presumably worthy of more after-ponderings on the part of listeners. But bafflement is not concerned with the size of the stonewall it beats its head against, and I am gnawed as much by the problem of the barrel as by the more metaphysical implications of the Houdini-Doyle mystery. Could it have ‘been the work of a performing seal? Answer, as Miss Delafield and the announcer say; comes there none. ~
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 10
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270Unsolved Mysteries New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 10
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