Today’s Cryptogram

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

DJ RQSGEX ZVWSI QC ZBCP XSGI; YC MYEE SBC EQIC CPX SYAPC; ZVC QP, DJ TBXI, QSG BP, DJ TWYXSGI - YC AYHXI Q EBHXEJ EYAPC. — XGSQ IC. HYSRXSC DYEEQJ

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.

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One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Have fun with today’s CG puzzle, and have a Marvelous Monday!
🌿🌸🌿🌿🌸🌿

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Previous puzzle Sunday, 6/5/2022

V OHTS CMPC V PU UTBCPY EX HPCABN, PHW NQMNUNBPY; EAC SMNH V CBPIN PC UX QYNPFABN CMN SVHWVHDF CT PHW GBT TG CMN MNPRNHYX ETWVNF V HT YTHDNB CTAIM CMN NPBCM SVCM UX GNNC: V FCPHW VH CMN QBNFNHIN TG KNAF MVUFNYG PHW CPON UX GVYY TG PUEBTFVP. ― QCTYNUX'F PYUPDNFC

Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):

I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia. ― Ptolemy's Almagest

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Call’s what you will, we are made such by love;
Call her one, me another fly,
We’re tapers too, and at our own cost die

John Donne, The Canonization

(”Taper” is another word for RQSGEX.)

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

The author thought of herself as quite flamboyant and was proud of it. Rush Limbaugh called this type “ Radical feminism”, and rightly so.

[Magnum44]

[scrabblehack]

All women are fair when the candles are out - Plutarch.

[nikos1121]

Not all

[scrabblehack]

Apparently, Plutarch wasn’t that picky.
He wrote quite a bit - I tried to find the original but couldn’t.

[doorgunner69]

The man must not have had a sense of smell or touch.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Second time you've had an author named XGSQ. (She gets her middle name from a hospital in Manhattan, which her uncle credited for saving his life shortly before she was born.) She grew up in Camden, Maine, which is my wife's (and therefore my) favorite vacation spot. It was where the 1950's film Peyton Place was filmed. The boarding house she lived in when going to high school is now a hotel.