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[mercia]

Edit at 22:07, have I killed this thread stone dead? Sorry!

people with more interesting things to do of a Friday night I should imagine

[mercia]

The novel is 'The Convalescent' by Nathaniel Parker Willis.
The 7th section of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' is 'Der Genesende' (= The Convalescent) [Stanley Kubrick 2001 A Space Odyssey]
The third movement of Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 132 is described as 'a convalescent's holy song of thanksgiving'.

very good, very good
correct in all particulars

[Anna]

people with more interesting things to do of a Friday night I should imagine

Well, at 10 to midnight the most interesting thing I have to do at the moment is to go to bed and listen out for the owls. Gosh, what exciting lives some of us lead, waiting for a twoo-whit-twoo-whoo through the window! So, Norfy, will Frank get his come uppence? I do hope so.

[Norfolk Born]

Good morning Anna!
Mark Heap was also the helpless leader, under constant attack from Ruth Jones, in the recent BBC 4 comedy about a walking group.
(Check your 'Notifications' box for a Corrie-related message).
Now I must devise a 'D', I guess.

[Norfolk Born]

'D'
One went from Minsk to Santa Monica, one went from station to station and one just went up and down.

[mercia]

from station to station

so thin & white

[Norfolk Born]

Indeed!

[cloughie]

Indeed!

Couldn't be anything to do with the other David Jones (No not the one now at S6)

[Norfolk Born]

Yes, indeed it could.

[cloughie]

Yes, indeed it could.

link to his albums and covers?

[Norfolk Born]

I suspect that mercia and cloughie know the link, if not all three elements. If anybody (else) would like a clue, please let me know.
(Cross-posted with cloughie there...a particular album and persona are relevant in one case)

[Nick Armstrong]

We seem to have become becalmed?! I wonder what's going on?! If the answers are know, why haven't they appeared?

Personally, I have no clue about the solution!

[mercia]

D = Duke

David Bowie - The Thin White Duke, his 1976 "persona"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_White_Duke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_to_Station

Vernon Duke - Vladimir Dukelsky, Russian-American composer/songwriter, 1903-1969, born Minsk, died Santa Monica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Duke

& presumably the Grand Old Duke of York with his ten thousand men marching up and down

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Old_Duke_of_York

[Anna]

I did think, from clue dropped, that it may have been Bowie but I was looking for song titles. I've never heard of Vernon Duke and the up and down flummoxed me also. Is it quiet because there are a lot of footie matches on today or has the number of AAers dwindled considerably?

[mercia]

has the number of AAers dwindled considerably?

it was never that big was it ?
fancy setting a question Anna or are you busy in the kitchen?