Alphabet associations - I

[edashtav]

No need to worry, ferney. It is (hopefully) solved.

The word is pas:

Kurt Weill - Je ne t'aime pas
Thomas Wilson Pas De Quoi
Malcolm Williamson Pas de Quatre

With a little poetic licence from Ed.

I'll say it again, that would have made a brilliant P, but I'm not complaining.

I take your point - I should be flayed alive as you're all singing "Je ne t'aime pas,ED" - although ,thinking a little more, that would need a chillier "vous". My sincere apologies for not having discovered the Rosetta Stone holding the riles for this game.

Once again, that Wise Man, Caliban, was to the fore, this time with his knowledge of French idioms. But it was the unfair "pas" that created the Not of Riddles (not Bliss), so should it be Flay who continues, with a less eXperimental X?

[Nick Armstrong]

Kurt Weill - Je ne t'aime pas

Ha ha mercs

Oiiiiii !!

Weill wrote a song called "Je t'aime pas", was my thinking.

Once again, that Wise Man, Caliban, was to the fore, this time with his knowledge of French idioms. But it was the unfair "pas" that created the Not of Riddles (not Bliss), so should it be Flay who continues, with a less eXperimental X?

Yes!

[Flay]

Yes!

Noooooooo!

Oh all right then. It might be a Y or Z though...

[Nick Armstrong]

Noooooooo!

Oh all right then. It might be a Y or Z though...

Such a tease

[Flay]

I have an X to the fore that links the Spleen of a Cadaqués bell ringer

[edashtav]

I have an X to the fore that links the Spleen of a Cadaqués bell ringer

The Cadaqués bell ringer may be Salvador Dali who gave a bell to its local church and, much later, obsessively operated a bell-push attached to his pyjamas. But... that doesn't help with the splenetic part of your clue, flay.

[Nick Armstrong]

The Cadaqués bell ringer may be Salvador Dali who gave a bell to its local church and, much later, obsessively operated a bell-push attached to his pyjamas. But... that doesn't help with the splenetic part of your clue, flay.

Yes I'd found the Dali - Cadaqués - bell link too but rather than the splenetic element, what's foxed me is the absence of any connecting X word so far....

[Flay]

Yes I'd found the Dali - Cadaqués - bell link too but rather than the splenetic element, what's foxed me is the absence of any connecting X word so far....

Spleen, not splenic! The bell ringer is most likely french

[Nick Armstrong]

Spleen, not splenic! The bell ringer is most likely french

Isn't 'splenetic' the adjective from 'spleen'....?

Of course, apart from the spiffing plonk from Moulis-en-Médoc called Château Chasse-Spleen, the French connection with "Spleen" is Baudelaire...

Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle
Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis...

and so forth...

No Xs there either

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The bell ringer is most likely french

Quasimodo?

Am I right in presuming that "spleen", "Cadaqués" and "bell ringer" are the three elements (rather than a "Cadaqués bell ringer")?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There's a Serenata a Lydia de Cadaqués by Montsalvatge,
And two opera Quasimodo by Rodriguez, and Spleen by Bengueril.

But what the 'ecks they have in common I couldn't say to save my life!

[hedgehog]

There's a Serenata a Lydia de Cadaqués by Montsalvatge,
And two opera Quasimodo by Rodriguez, and Spleen by Bengueril.

But what the 'ecks they have in common I couldn't say to save my life!

Bengeurel's first name is Xavier though.

Edit: As is Montsalvatge's. Ahem, Ferney, you can swim can't you?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Bengeurel's first name is Xavier though.

Can't be that, though - Xavier is the middle name of Rodriguez and Montsalvatge.

[hedgehog]

Can't be that, though - Xavier is the middle name of Rodriguez and Montsalvatge.

Maybe they all preferred to be called Xavier?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Maybe they all preferred to be called Xavier?

Oh1 Like The Brotherhood of Man's Eurovision number - Xavier Kissesforme?