Alphabet associations - I

[Tapiola]

And Quest by Cage (1935).

Aside: Does anyone remember the (late 70s?) American Western drama The Quest, about 2 brothers in search of their abducted sister? I loved it.

Aside 2: I was forced to read Spenser's Faerie Queen as an undergrad. Others may disagree, but I can confidently say that it was among the most unutterably dull books I have ever read.

[vinteuil]

... I was forced to read Spenser's Faerie Queen as an undergrad. Others may disagree, but I can confidently say that it was among the most unutterably dull books I have ever read.

... at least you didn't (perhaps) have to read Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias ... or Milton's Paradise Regained ...

[Tapiola]

You're right, vinteuil. No Sidney on the syllabus though Milton's Paradise Lost was. I shall make a mental note to avoid the former! I have to say that Milton and I never really hit it off either.

[Tapiola]

I have an R waiting. May I?

[Tapiola]

All right then...

Now to a slightly cryptic “R”, which encompasses three clues across the olfactory, cinematic and musical media. One word answer.

Wednesday’s fragrant violinist.

EDIT. I should add that the answer is a name.

[Nick Armstrong]

All right then...

Now to a slightly cryptic “R”, which encompasses three clues across the olfactory, cinematic and musical media. One word answer.

Wednesday’s fragrant violinist.

EDIT. I should add that the answer is a name.

Impressive happenings this morning (I could make nothing of Q), whilst work dominated the agenda... Rubbers seems to be otherwise detained too.

I completely share the Milton antipathy since trying to feign interest in 'Samson Agonistes' at school

Meantime a teasing and admirably concise new problem

[Angle]

Good morning, everyone.

I have escaped for a minute from visitors who seem to have been here for ever and am unlikely to be back until I have recovered after their departure,

Is this R likely to have been found in bits and recovered by Shostakovitch. Can I bank on it ?

[Tapiola]

Angle,

Commiserations on your guest issues!

I like your way of thinking over the R, but, alas no, it's nothing to do with Rothschild or his fiddle...

[rubbernecker]

Sorry, was detained by work. Taps was correct with Cage and Crumb and gets bonus points for actually having a recording of the Crumb.

He also gets a gold star because I agree that trying to read Spenser's Faerie Queen was the most mind-numbing experience of my undergraduate life, let alone trying to find something interesting to say about it.

[rubbernecker]

All right then...

Now to a slightly cryptic “R”, which encompasses three clues across the olfactory, cinematic and musical media. One word answer.

Wednesday’s fragrant violinist.

EDIT. I should add that the answer is a name.

Olfactory and fragrant immediately has me thinking of a rose - by any other name?

[Tapiola]

Perhaps you could pursue that line of thought, rubbers (though I am unsure which angle you are coming from with it)?

[The only thing I can remember about Faerie Queen is some bint called Florimel who gets chased]

[Tapiola]

Perhaps I might clarify slightly by stating that the fragrant thing is not living.

[rubbernecker]

Perhaps I might clarify slightly by stating that the fragrant thing is not living.

Ok, so it's not Mary Archer, then

[Tapiola]

oh, I don't know. I always thought that The Perjurer's Wife looked a bit dead round the eyes. Maybe being married to such a literary titan does that to a person.

[rubbernecker]

Ricci

Christina Ricci played Wednesday Addams in the Addams Family;
Nina Ricci perfume;
Ruggiero Ricci violinist

(I need to go out for lunch, now, but I won't be as long as Caliban, and I will cogitate on S as I eat...)