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... while we are delighted to make the acquaintance once again of Dora - and while we are enchanted by the diaeresis on Caliboozer's naïf - we are distressed to think he imagines there can be a 'latter' of three...
I never knew that! (cue: vinsanto frisson and perhaps even a moue) - so former and latter are like like older and younger - only of two? So what should I have said: last?
Anyway I see that if I failed to solve Y, I at least precipitated a 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..."
Alan Arkin was Yossarian in Catch-22 and Dr Oatman in GPB
not sure what or how much of Strauss's music is used in Catch-22
Great work by mercia - if I may assist (from the IMDB site):
Music credit:
"Also sprach Zarathustra"
Written by Richard Strauss
Conducted by Fritz Reiner
(when Yossarian first sees Luciana)
"...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..."
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