Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 03, 2023

Good old Aristotle…

Tomorrow is the 92th anniversary of the first Dick Tracy’s Sunday

Someone has a weird thumb fetish today, that’s for sure.

Gosh, could I use a pastrami sandwich right now!

It’s apparent there will never be any action in this story.

OK, if we’re going to get all metaphysical & start delving into the philosophy of sciences & first principles, I’d like to know what the first principal crime or point of this story is. Just saying.

Good morning™, everyone!

I’m a little confused today. The prayer book was c. 1290 which is the 13th century. How does that relate to the notebook reference to the 11th century?

Also, I don’t see where Aristotle comes in, but that part may have nothing to do with this case.

Prayer book the only valuable missing? Perp might be into transcendental meditation. Goes to yogi classes to unwind.

Someone is holding the manuscript and “the toy” for ransome. How much does this person expect to get? Oh the institute would leave no stone unturned to get their property back. Whether they have deeper pockets than the Caxton estate is another matter.

Good morning™, note analyzers.

That’s some cryptic schitt Tracy is looking at.

Strange. The Arabs were the ones translating Aristotle in the 11th century. Most of the translating was done in Toledo in Spain.

Is this going to be Tracy riffing on “The Name of the Rose”?

this is all greek to me

Yes, Sam, it IS. Now put it BACK.

This story is slower than the twelve days of Christmas .

The Aristotle translation is in the volume previously noticed as missing by Lee? And the missing diary of Ms. Caxton has something to do with it?

1-SAM: Why include my name in your Crappy Detective Lawsuit? MS. LAWYER: Because your imbecilic answers to my simple questions when I put you on the stand will convince the Jury.

2-SAM: She’s right -we’re doomed. DT: Maybe not – look!

3-SAM: Uh…yeah…what? DT: Manutius was a Chinese Agent REPORTING DIRECTLY TO XI JINPING! AND some guy named Aristotle was translating his reports into Mandarin for him! THIS IS NOW AN ISSUE OF NATIONAL SECURITY!!! The government won’t let this lawsuit go forward! We dodged another bullet!

SAM: WHAT? I DIDN’T EVEN HEAR IT! DT: sigh

When did Tracy get a smart phone? I thought the Wrist Wizard would be used here. I know times are changing but what happened to the display from the WW?

MOVIE QUOTE—“So what you’re telling me is we’ve got a 5,000-foot long horny beast on our hands”

MEGA SHARK VS. MECHA SHARK—2014

The paint has dried—-now what do I do?

Hmm.

Is this text message to Tracy’s cell phone coming from the M.E.’s office? Is the “notebook in pocket” one recovered from the clothes of the deceased Aldus Manutius? Is this notebook perhaps the same “diary” that the housemaid noted as missing from the desk of Ms. Caxton (20 IX 23). If so, then there is a significantly close connection between Caxton and Manutius.

And a mysterious 11th century translation of Aristotle raises two questions: “translation” from what language to what language? In the Middle Ages, much of Aristotle was know to Latin-using Western scholars by way of translations from Arabic, since “the Philosopher’s” works originally written in Greek were not preserved in the West, but had been copied, translated, and preserved by Arabic scholars; and, “not in office” would suggest that searching for it at the Pfister Institute Library office would be futile. But where else could there be? Did Manutius have an apartment or house or storage unit hitherto not mentioned? If a manuscript of one of Aristotle’s lost “public” works (published back in those days, and today all lost), unbelievably valuable; if a copy of one of the surviving works, often texts based on notes kept by his students at his lectures, still valuable….

It’s really Pinkie The Stabber’s coded memoirs