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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
    Eureka! 'Revealed' in a P which also links an English, a Dutch and an American composer (jazz).
    I pop back to find the clues as cryptic as ever!

    Is Eureka a sign of your excitement at providing another clue, or is it there for a reason? Perhaps "Revealed" is part of a title?
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • hedgehog

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      I pop back to find the clues as cryptic as ever!

      Is Eureka a sign of your excitement at providing another clue, or is it there for a reason? Perhaps "Revealed" is part of a title?
      No Eureka is a way in to the P - albeit via a sideways path. Who said Eureka? 'Revealed' is not part of the title, but is pertinent to the word starting with P that is the title.

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        synonyms for revealed - published, proclaimed, made plain
        eureka said by Archimedes. wiki says there's an opera called Archimedes by James Dashow (American but not jazz) written to be performed in a planetarium

        shall I hold any of those thoughts ?

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        • hedgehog

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          synonyms for revealed - published, proclaimed, made plain
          eureka said by Archimedes. wiki says there's an opera called Archimedes by James Dashow (American but not jazz) written to be performed in a planetarium

          shall I hold any of those thoughts ?
          No. Or, sort of - texts found (eureka) & revealed, made plain, in particular of Archimedes being most famous.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
            No. Or, sort of - texts found (eureka) & revealed, made plain, in particular of Archimedes being most famous.
            ... is this a "Google Translate"?

            Anyroad up:

            Louis Andriessen: De Volharding ( = "Persistence");
            Richard Causton: The Persitence of Memory;
            Joe Magnarelli: Persistence

            ... perhaps?
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              ... is this a "Google Translate"?

              Anyroad up:

              Louis Andriessen: De Volharding ( = "Persistence");
              Richard Causton: The Persitence of Memory;
              Joe Magnarelli: Persistence

              ... perhaps?
              By 'eck, tha's Persistence is gratifyin'

              Researching all this has bagged me a new word: palimpsest.

              Fortunately it is not an unwanted intrusion by an impotent parent , but

              a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped or washed off and which can be used again.
              The subject of this website is a manuscript of extraordinary importance to the history of science, the Archimedes Palimpsest.
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12798

                Originally posted by Flay View Post

                Researching all this has bagged me a new word: palimpsest.
                ... Flay - as you like palimpsest you might also enjoy a not-unrelated word :



                [Not that this has anything to do with the pursuit of the P here... ]

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  ... Flay - as you like palimpsest you might also enjoy a not-unrelated word :



                  [Not that this has anything to do with the pursuit of the P here... ]
                  That is kind of you. I am sure that to some pentimento is as objectionable as portamento.

                  Perhaps you could start a new thread of interesting and unusual words?
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    By 'eck, tha's Persistence is gratifyin'

                    Researching all this has bagged me a new word: palimpsest.

                    Fortunately it is not an unwanted intrusion by an impotent parent , but



                    http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
                    Well, Palimpsest is at least connected to Archimedes - and I think there's a piece by George Benjamin with that title ...
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      Well, Palimpsest is at least connected to Archimedes - and I think there's a piece by George Benjamin with that title ...
                      Oh gosh, what have I unearthed?

                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Flay
                        Full Member
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 5795

                        Simeon ten Holt (1923-2012): Palimpsest for string septet (1990-1992).

                        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Composer George Benjamin introduces and explains his work, "Palimpsests"

                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795



                            Holt's work lasts 51 minutes. It is rather like listening to "Jesus' Love"
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26524

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              palimpsest.

                              Fortunately it is not an unwanted intrusion by an impotent parent
                              Me no understand...



                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              Good word... a new one on me!
                              "...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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                              • Flay
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 5795

                                [QUOTE=Caliban;281570]Me no understand...

                                Must I spell it out.... Pa... limp... rhymes with...? <doh>
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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