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Two problems: 1) nobody 's that good at hermeneutics; and 2) why would the archfiend, who's in a big hurry to consummate his relationship with Christine before the ball drops in Times Square, interrupt his mission to leave clues for his enemies?
These are linguistic clues, and can be misleading: cf.
If I could not identify a missing word in a quotation, I marked that down to my own failing, one that was not likely to be remedied by looking it up in Bartlett , after which it would be promptly forgotten; mercifully, not all clues in puzzles are quotations, so some of them worked out; besides, the word that had to be supplied was usually a very common one and its only connection with the quotation was that it happended to appear in it, like be in To be or not to be.
Why, if you were an evil sprite like Azazel, would you leave clues for the cagey Hobbes to follow in the first place?
Two clues in the Pennsylvania case: 1) The boy had said, "I'm going to go to the dinner dance and kill some people."