 | 1872 - 592 pàgines
...game.] EQUIVOCAL RELATIONSHIP. — A man is looking nt a portrait, and pointing to it, exclaims — " Brothers and sisters have I none ; But that man's father is my father's son." Query : Whose portrait is he pointing at ? GH KNIGHT. [As already remarked, there is more than meets... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1908 - 822 pàgines
...it is impossible to say. One is frequently asked the old question of the man who, while pointing to a portrait, says, " Brothers and sisters have I none,...relation did the man in the picture bear to the speaker ? There is no difficulty if you simplify the question by saying that "my father's son" must be either... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield, Edward Dillon Mansfield - 1899 - 272 pàgines
...betrayed by wicked men. 3. I am not so foolish as to think the town more beautiful than the country. 4. Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son. 5. The wound was said to be so severe that no physician could heal it. 6. He was afraid to use the... | |
 | 1925 - 252 pàgines
...And all the men in our town Couldn't count the windows in it. Thimble. 2674 . Sisters and brothers have I none, But that man's father is my father's son, What relation is that man to me ? My Son. 2675 . When the garden was laid And the beautiful maid Was as fresh and... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 pàgines
...one.— It was a picture of his own son" (p. 79). The version I have always heard in my own experience is "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son.— The man is the speaker's own son." Perhaps Joyce slightly modified the riddle to fit the situation... | |
 | Richard M. Dorson - 1972 - 574 pàgines
...eight nickels, two dimes An interesting group emphasizes the confusing aspects of family relationships. Brothers and sisters have I none, But that man's father is my father's son. Who is he? His son This last puzzle is often found in a narrative frame, such as the neckriddle story.... | |
 | Barbara Field - 1989 - 68 pàgines
...CREATURE. But you had a brother. FRANKENSTEIN. Don't be so literal- minded! Come on, it's a test Try. " Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." (Somewhere, the sound of a pistol shot.) CREATURE. What you said before, about touching me — FRANKENSTEIN.... | |
 | Wendell E. Carr - 1992 - 234 pàgines
...from Ray Gonda, IBM Burlington. At a funeral, Frank points to the man in the coffin and mysteriously says, "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." What is the relationship between Frank and the man in the coffin? 235. A Circular Swimming Pool A wealthy... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 1994 - 484 pàgines
...come from inside our heads. Consider the classics, Zeno's paradoxes, or the puzzles of our primers: Brothers and sisters have I none But that man's father is my father's son. Again, the answers seem so close (after all, the arrow does move and Achilles does pass the tortoise),... | |
 | David Blackman - 1993 - 202 pàgines
...men examining a portrait. When one man asks who the subject of the painting is, the other replies, "Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son." One of my former professors once noted that the people of the world are divided into two groups: those... | |
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Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son. 
