Peanut Gallery for the Keys/RAZD Debate

An approach like what I'm suggesting here would probably be completely lost on simple, but I think it's a great way of explaining dendrochronology to a newcomer.This is a pretty simple operation that shouldn't take more then a few minutes to complete, but demonstrates how you can assemble a much longer chronology from a series of shorter ones, even with errors in the individual segments.- PROBLEM -
Given the following 14 lines of text and knowledge that the top two lines are the start of the quote, assemble the entire sequence.If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he
If a civil word or too will render a
loses nine of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who
happy, he must be a wretch indeed who wall
two will render a man hippy, he must
of its brilliancy buy what the other gains.
like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses
a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a
gave them to him. Such a disposition is lake lighting
man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what
a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a
not give them to him. Such a disposition is
two him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle

Expanding on my previous problem, you can also show how carbon dating fits into the equation. I would approach it like so.There is an additional property of letters that we have not discussed yet, and that is that each letter has a particular color. Ranging from white to black. We know that whenever we look a letter at the start of a quote it is white, and the further down the quote you go, the darker the letters get.For example:
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he
Now lets say you find a new scrap of paper with a new segment on it.

render a man happy, he must be a wretch
Now, not only do we have words that match, but the colors match also, giving us a really good idea of where the segment goes in the overall quote.

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Using this info, we can then answer questions like this:
I found a scrap of paper, but it only has 1 letter on it. Where does it go?
Well, if it looks like this: 'a'
we can be pretty sure we know where it goes.

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It's all about the correlating data. I hope this makes some kind of sense.