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FF021 Gnome Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 2/22/2021
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Welcome to the Florida Finders Fest 2021 Forest Fables geo-art, brought to you by the Forest Minions! These caches are not at their posted coordinates. For the mystery caches, solve the challenging trivia question, to determine the final coordinates. For the Wherigo caches, work through the play anywhere cartridge, to get the final coordinates.

A gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characteristics have been reinterpreted to suit the needs of various story tellers, but it is typically said to be a small humanoid that lives underground.

 

In 19th-century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy or luminous fairy. Nathaniel Hawthorne in Twice-Told Tales (1837) contrasts the two in "Small enough to be king of the fairies, and ugly enough to be king of the gnomes". Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow (1877), which has "let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine"

 

Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms, could be the definition of:

 

A: Teenage angst = N29° 27.181' W81° 48.572'

B: An utter wanker = N29° 27.181' W81° 48.562'

C: Gnomic = N29° 27.181' W81° 48.552'

Additional Hints (No hints available.)