Here is mine:įenn is instructing you to open TTOTC to to last page (the end) and look at the drawing on the left (drawing nigh).

I've never been satisfied with published solutions for 'The end is ever drawing nigh'. Have you ever seen the phrase 'the end of an era'? Maybe Forrest was remarking on the dwindling wilderness, as urban sprawl spreads its ugly face over more and more of the planet. Perhaps something (other than a bowstring or arrow) is being 'drawn', possibly figuratively/allegorically/symbolically/umbilically/etc. Particular search hike - although this is obvious and probably not helpful.Ħ. A little more generally, of course one would be approaching the end of one's ForĮxample, one might be hiking on a trail, or alongside a rivulet, and approaching its end. More specifically, if one is at a location that is 'no place for the meek', one might be going in a direction that is approaching the end of that thoroughfare. Even more broadly, the end of life is always getting closer to a person (Fenn treasure hunt searcher or not).ĥ. Conversely, the end is getting closer to the searcher (based on the concept of 'frame of reference').Ĥ.

as a searcher progresses in travel along the correct search path (which may be BOTG or in an automobile, depending on how far along one is), the searcher is getting closer to the end of that travel. Thinking more broadly now, about the treasure hunt.

When approaching the end of a rainbow, you may think that you're getting closer to it (or, that it's end is getting closer - 'is ever drawing nigh' to you).ģ. It's elusive (which reminds me of a song about a flutterby - I mean, butterfly. I also considered the idea of a rainbow, knowing that if you try to go to its end, you'll never get there. One of the things I found had a name that included 'Tepee'.Ģ. I was thereby interested in a possible search area with names of things related to this. So I thought that if an 'end is drawing nigh', then perhaps a batch of arrows (or, more broadly, archery - say, a bow and an archer and at least one arrow) was getting close. That batch of arrows was called 'an end'. Each of us was issued about 5 arrows, which were put into a quiver. Thoughts I have had about 'The end is ever drawing nigh' include the following, but I'm not going to tell you in this posting which one(s) seem to make more sense than the other one(s).ġ. I take that to mean that certain parts of the poem can be interpreted in more than one way, while still making some sense. People have said that the poem 'has layers'.

The end is drawing nigh