a book about Harold Acton.

a book arrived today.
among the gazillionth that i bought this summer.
but we all know, there is no such thing as too many books.

Harold was introduced to me in biographies about Aldous Huxley and Oliver Wilde.... Acton's choice of personal philosophy was seductive to me because of my own attractions in vintage societies....

but this book that has recently arrived is a sequel to his first book of memoirs, so me (being a freak), am not letting myself read it; until the first book shows up and i read that one first...
shalom! - Juju.

Logical Labyrinth

i decided to study the book Logical Labyrinth by Raymond Smullyan (with hopes of not losing my WHOLE left-hemisphere to this menopause)...

i am going to just type one of the puzzles per night, if anyone has thoughts to share, feel free!

and the following day i will post the next puzzle for that day, and the solution of the day before....

here is today's puzzle:

Edgar Abercrombie was an anthropologist who was particularly interested in the logic and sociology of "lying" and "truth telling". One day he decided to visit a cluster of islands where a lot of lying and truth-telling activity was going on! The first island of his visit was the Island of Knights and Knaves. (Knights always tell the truth; Knaves always lie)

PROBLEM 1.1 (a classic case): On the day of his arrival, Abercrombie came across three inhabitants, whom we will call A, B and C. He asked A: "Are you a knight or a knave?" A answered, but so indistinctly that Abercrombie could not understand what he said. He then asked B: "What did he say?" B replied: "He said that he is a knave." At this point, C piped up and said: "Don't believe that; it's a lie!"
Was C a knight or a knave?