Wednesday, 17 July 2013

riddle - a spell for summoning help


Mutter dos de thou around a rhetorical shape,
then pause with the hero of Card's game.
Then let it sit for far too long

while the celts tell you how many bards came.
Our protagonist makes another appearance.
This sentence exists for poetic adherence.
A short commercial makes it done and unique.
If compelled, you can choose to mark it oblique.


Hint #1:



If you are reading this, chances are very high you've cast this spell



Hint #2:




For this hint, you will need to appeal to Aristotle



Hint #3:



vs vg jnf n fanxr



Hint #4:



A certain Irish singer/songwriter may help you "track" down one of the lines




Hint #5:



No line represents something longer than 3




Answer



Credit is due to other answerers and commenters.
I have pieced together various things to arrive at this answer.

I think what we're looking for is...




That most helpful of sites:


www.rot13.com



Mutter dos de thou around a rhetorical shape,



Dos de thou -> two of you -> double-you -> w
I'm not totally clear on how this clues three Ws for www

(Side note: for so long I thought this line contained an anagram.)



then pause with the hero of Card's game.




As indicated in other answers/comments, this refers to the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Here, specifically, we want a dot (or period) which commonly is the ender of a sentence.



Then let it sit for far too long



Many things rot if you leave them too long.



while the celts tell you how many bards came.



I haven't tracked down this reference. I'm guessing there were 13.




Our protagonist makes another appearance.



Ender again, for another dot.



This sentence exists for poetic adherence.



Fair enough. Nothing to see here.



A short commercial makes it done and unique.




Short commercial = com



If compelled, you can choose to mark it oblique.



Made clear by other answers that this refers to the forward slash character '/'. If you want to, you can end the URL with a forward slash.



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