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Cain's Jawbone

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

There’s a strange book from 1934 called Cain’s Jawbone that's "not for the faint-hearted.” It’s part puzzle, part murder mystery. And it’s only been solved three times. You can find the book here. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and the pages are out of order.

0:42.0

I read some of these hundred pages in not the correct

0:47.1

order but how they're given. I had no clue what was happening. Yeah.

0:53.0

How do you even start?

0:54.0

You're right, the first time you read it, it's like reading

0:56.0

strange abstract poetry or I've got it here.

0:59.0

Shall I read you a little bit so that your

1:01.0

listeners have sort of sense of what we're talking about.

1:03.5

Would that be useful?

1:04.8

Okay, so this is a random page that starts.

1:07.9

I knew of course that if I got there in five minutes I would have double the time for my by no means suburban hops at the

1:13.7

Café Royal without insulting it and myself with John Montague's arrangement

1:18.2

for an uninterrupted session at the gaming table. I felt so much at one with holy

1:22.4

Mr Herbert or Mr Haddock did he call himself, but he was right about these hours, and if that was not holiness, what was, meed kissing laces surely he had convulsed us with.

1:33.4

For the moment it didn't matter because I decided what to do.

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