From: Vincente Watkins <vewatkin@owu.edu>
To: john bailey <jmb184@frontiernet.net>                                                                December 11, 2001
Subject: Room 32 

"The symmetry was also disturbed by the apparent loss of one of the room's
statues.  My visitors thought a thief had broken  into the room, removed
the figure, and made away with it.  This, of course, was one explanation."

Another explanation: In Greek mythology, Daedalus made statues so realistic
that they were said to move about on their own.  As has been mentioned a
thousand times before, Daedalus constructed the labyrinth of King Minos.

Likewise, the references to the hot sun in the prologue seem to be a
reference to the Daedalus/Icarus myth (the hot sun melted the wax on
Icarus' wings, causing him to fall and drown in the ocean) (this may also
be a pun on "sun").  These clues seem to refer more to Daedalus than Minos,
but I take them as sideways indicators of the narrator's identity.

John Bailey replied:

Outstanding!  These are three of the more substantial clues received recently.

Consistent with your proposal, I will give this the title of 32_watkins.txt and
as we go along I may rename the others.

Thanks
John