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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'.
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.
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.
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Now I must devise a 'D', I guess.
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)
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!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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?
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