BORDER PHRASE: "The hills are not as high, the sea so deep, as a dream."
BARBED LETTER WORD: LIGHT
RED LETTER WORD: AIR
WORD FROM THE MASTER RIDDLE: EARTH
HIDDEN HARE: As a very small piece of shrubbery (Ni!) in the lower right corner.
CLUES & COMMENTS: The treasure was NOT buried under the topiary hare. :) The neighborhood depicted is Tewkesbury. The athletic field to the left contains a red herring magic square; the numbers are atomic numbers, and when translated into their elemental abberviation counterparts, the grid spells out FALSE NOUU THINK AGAIN. Kit says that only four people spotted this--one of whom was 12-year-old girl. Publisher Tom Maschler's name is on the moving van in the lower right corner.
Richard Hartley wrote in with some of his theories: "Gemini seemed to me at the time, and certainly after the solution was revealed, a kind of confirmer (Gem in Eye) though KW did not allude to this as far as I know, not in the 'Quest for the Golden Hare', the paperback solution, nor any other articles I have seen. As we all know, you often see in the artwork and text many elements which you think must have been intentional but which are just happy accidents. It seemed to me when I explored the Tara page that there is a cloud formation to the right of the cathedral which looks like a man and woman entwined, facing one another (the twins!) Below them on the ground and behind the cathedral, though not visible in the painting, is a stone cross. Intended?"
