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Thanks everybody for your diverse & most pertinent divers' & ironers' answers.
Balthazar...if we need to know that the good professor's interests are not only various but also quite different and seperate from each other (calligraphy, rollerblading, headbutting suitcases), then "divers" or "sundry" won't quite do the job, and diverse is the better word.
I hope yamilah gets in touch soon and puts us out of our suspense about what she's actually wanting to say with the phrase. Is this an academic thesis that we're all helping you out with, yamilah, or merely the phrasing of your next question? Happy to help, either way, but I'm curious!Not much suspense nor academism at that stage, I'm afraid, but just a childish* game. Cantonneau belongs to both expeditions: the arctic one (up to the meteorite), and the Peruvian (one up to the Sun temple).
As mentioned in quite a few posts, Cantonneau's interests are thus:
- stars, i.e. astronomy or a related science (
The Shooting Star)
- Indians, i.e. ethnography or a related science (
The Seven Crystal Balls)
Such diverse or dissimilar interests should trigger some attention on the part of the non fed-up hard workers, considering these interests can be connected with:
- 'cercle solaire irlandais'* (i.e. Zodiac, found in the original
Lotus Bleu)
- the presence of at least one drawn and dated Zodiacal Sign (Cancer or Crab, see Q72)
- the Indian* avatars* seen in every album, except the Black Island, the original title of which (
Ile noire*) can operate as a password and lead to the East Indies*, as if Tintin could be kind of a sophisticated
tracking game based -among others- on linguistic puns*, as also hinted by 'La Gazza Ladra*' = the stealing magpie (
The Emerald), or George* = Varghese = Jorgen, etc.
I would appreciate if the admin could change all my Cantonneau-related erroneous 'asunder' into 'diverse' or 'dissimilar'. Thanks in advance.
* please search for related threads.