Originally posted by Oddball
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You mean an animal, rather than vegetable or mineral?Pacta sunt servanda !!! -
Yes essentially an animal.Comment
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Orang - Utan?
Laurent Petitgrand: l'orang - Utan amere
Michael Torke: Ecstatic Orang - Utan
... err ...
.... ummm ...
Rodrigo's most famous concerto???[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Originally posted by Oddball View Post
Fascinating puzzle...
One assumes from 'composers' that we're talking classical (always worth checking, on the AA thread...
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I've been thinking in terms of Orpheus or Odysseus on the basis that everyone wrote about them at some point, but I guess mythic figures aren't animals...
Must hunt out that second thinking cap...
"...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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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
Occurred to me too... just didn't have the
to post it!
"...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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Not sure how many clues I can give without giving too much away.
But I'm thinking of an object that has different names in the various languages .Comment
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"...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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"Essentially an animal" has me intrigued. Is Ox too prosaic an approach to the clue?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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I think I have a glimmer of where you are heading ferney ... but then I saw "in different languages" so now I'm not so sure.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Dunno. I was thinking, briefly, Offenbach, Jules Verne, Gavin Bryars re Ox. Milhaud would fit, of course, but who else? I'll probably leave it for now and tend to my curry.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
- or ask Beef Oven for help?
But American Oxen? The Plow that Broke the Plains?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Then there was that Spanish guy who sounds like an Italian city a.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post - or ask Beef Oven for help?
But American Oxen? The Plow that Broke the Plains?Comment
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Been pondering this all afternoon and the same thought occurred to me - and plows breaking plains too...Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Great puzzle, this.
Which Spanish guy, cloughie?
"...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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