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  • Norfolk Born

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    it's von Kleist. Penthesilea, the Broken Jug, and merckx's Homburg chappie....

    Henze did the Homburg; Fritz Geißler did Der verbrochne Krug, and Othmar Schoeck Penthesilea.
    That's the fella! I think this is the first time I've given any thought to Heinrich von Kleist since I studied 19th century German drama at university. I believe another Kleist work, Die Marquise von O, was made into a film. Pentheselia got tangled up with Achiiles, in case anybody was wondering.
    Over to you for 'L'.

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    • JFLL
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      • Jan 2011
      • 780

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      it's von Kleist. Penthesilea, the Broken Jug, and merckx's Homburg chappie....

      Henze did the Homburg; Fritz Geißler did Der verbrochne Krug, and Othmar Schoeck Penthesilea.
      Doh! I was just about to send this in, and I'm an AA virgin! But was the Prince of Homburg a landgrave's son? Couldn'the first be Käthchen von Heilbronn (opera by Pfitzner), with a count as hero rather than a prince??

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      • vinteuil
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12798

        Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
        Over to you for 'L'.
        okely-dokely...

        Starting with the man with no name's big book, the Belgian gets to the heart of it, but we end up with a horse and Œdipus...

        What the L am I talking about?

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by JFLL View Post
          Doh! I was just about to send this in, and I'm an AA virgin!
          Gosh, Virgins ............ Welcome!

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          • JFLL
            Full Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 780

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            Gosh, Virgins ............ Welcome!
            Thank you, Anna, but if I ever do get in first, I see I'll have to go through 16,000+ posts to see whether something's been done before. Might just go back to lurking and admiring all the wit and wisdom on offer ......

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Originally posted by JFLL View Post
              Might just go back to lurking and admiring all the wit and wisdom on offer ......
              No, you can't. Now that you have lost your virginity you have to stay here and suffer AA like the rest of us. We don't do this for fun

              Welcome, JFLL

              I'll have to go through 16,000+ posts to see whether something's been done before.
              Not at all, we don't bother about that. We're all so senile here that we can't remember what happened yesterday, let alone 10,000 posts ago. I can't even get the letters of the alphabet in the right order today...
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                We're all so senile here that we can't remember what happened yesterday
                I was about to say something similar to that, then thought better of it
                Welcome JFLL

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  Starting with the man with no name's big book
                  Oh gosh, no name = anonymous. From Wiki:
                  AA's name derived from its first book, informally called "The Big Book", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism.
                  We need help recovering from our own AA!
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12798

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    no name = anonymous. :
                    ... is a good start...

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      the Belgian gets to the heart of it
                      anything remotely to do with Conrad's Heart of Darkness ?

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                        a horse and Œdipus...
                        anything remotely to do with Freud ?

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          All very deep. Herbert Graf(ton) = Little Hans?
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12798

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            the Belgian gets to the heart of it
                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            anything remotely to do with Conrad's Heart of Darkness ?
                            nope. The Belgian is a composer.

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            we end up with a horse and Œdipus
                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            anything remotely to do with Freud ?
                            nope. The horse is Italian.

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12798

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              The Belgian is a composer.

                              ... to be accurate, he was born in what is now Belgium...

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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                Ludovicus Episcopius, a Dutch composer of the late Renaissance wrote "Vruecht en deucht mijn hert verhuecht (my heart enjoys in pleasure and virtue)"

                                Not a lot of people know that...
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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