Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

He might, but not on my watch!

[vinteuil]

finding shoe laces (they have kept breaking lately )

Time to re-read Nicholson Baker's first (and still my favourite) novel, The Mezzanine, one of whose main motifs is the breaking of shoe-laces (and how baffling the asymmetry - why does one always break before the other?) - not forgetting the work referred to on page 132 of the book - 'Methods for Evaluating the Abrasion Resistance and Knot Slippage Strength of Shoe Laces', Z Czaplicki, Technik Wlokienniczy. 1984, 33 no. 1, 3-4.

[Nick Armstrong]

Time to re-read Nicholson Baker's first (and still my favourite) novel, The Mezzanine, one of whose main motifs is the breaking of shoe-laces (and how baffling the assymetry - why does one always break before the other?) - not forgetting the work referred to on page 132 of the book - 'Methods for Evaluating the Abrasion Resistance and Knot Slippage Strength of Shoe Laces', Z Czaplicki, Technik Wlokienniczy. 1984, 33 no. 1, 3-4.

It would be a re-read too, I read it years ago... but had forgotten that detail!!! And it's true, it's always the right one that goes, in my case. To do with being right handed and exerting more force, perhaps...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Spooky! I've broken two shoelaces (both of 'em right feet) this week dressing for work, too!

an insomniac who shares her name with a rather large gun.

Bertha? Mason (the first Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea)?

[Nick Armstrong]

Spooky! I've broken two shoelaces (both of 'em right feet) this week dressing for work, too!

Bertha?

Yes! You are on the way.

The other Rochester / Sargasso is not relevant.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yes! You are on the way.

The other Rochester / Sargasso is not relevant. [/COLOR]

Well, there's also Freud's patient, Bertha Pappenheim, whose sister (?cousin) Marie wrote the libretto for Schönberg's Erwartung, the protagonist of which has one helluva sleepless night! But this seems unduly convoluted. Even more so if I suggest that the "disabled youth" might be Moonstruck Peter (/Pierrot Lunaire)? And I can't think of any Schönberbian fishes (other than a twelve note roe) ?

[amateur51]

Well, there's also Freud's patient, Bertha Pappenheim, whose sister (?cousin) Marie wrote the libretto for Schönberg's Erwartung, the protagonist of which has one helluva sleepless night! But this seems unduly convoluted. Even more so if I suggest that the "disabled youth" might be Moonstruck Peter (/Pierrot Lunaire)? And I can't think of any Schönberbian fishes (other than a twelve note roe) ?

Eggsellent, fhg!

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, there's also Freud's patient, Bertha Pappenheim, whose sister (?cousin) Marie wrote the libretto for Schönberg's Erwartung, the protagonist of which has one helluva sleepless night! But this seems unduly convoluted. Even more so if I suggest that the "disabled youth" might be Moonstruck Peter (/Pierrot Lunaire)? And I can't think of any Schönberbian fishes (other than a twelve note roe) ?

WOW.... no, fhg, you're over-thinking it! Unduly convoluted indeed.

It was worth it for the 12-tone roe gag though!

The answer is all around you, staring you in the ears.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

WOW.... no, fhg, you're over-thinking it! Unduly convoluted indeed.

It was worth it for the 12-tone roe gag though!

The answer is all around you, staring you in the ears.

Ah! Might I work it out over the next week or so?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Like, f'rinstance, Berta's Lied in der nacht, a Trout by ... is it Duncan Schubert? Did he do a disabled lad, too?

[Nick Armstrong]

Ah! Might I work it out over the next week or so?

Hahaha! I like your style, fhg!

Yes Bertha's Night Song.

Fred Schubert it is! (I bet everyone hates me now.)

Not trout...

The lad in question was visually handicapped.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The lad in question was visually handicapped.[/COLOR]

Der Blinde Knabe

and Der Fischer?

[Nick Armstrong]

Der Blinde Knabe

and Der Fischer?

Yes to the unfortunate knabe. There's something more precise for the piscatorial element

Clue: D933

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Generous in his output, our Duncan!
Des Fischers Liebesglück D933.

(Who is this Derek Fisher???)

[Nick Armstrong]

Generous in his output, our Duncan!
Des Fischers Liebesglück D933.

(Who is this Derek Fisher???)

Des Fisher - you know, Ron's brother.

FHG you have excelled with my very boring S. I invite you to T.