well I never.
Anyways - Stravinsky and Diaghilev are certainly there...
Anyways - Stravinsky and Diaghilev are certainly there...
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... and of course Ezra Pound ( ex-pound - geddit?) - ho hoOriginally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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The dots seem to suggest the elapse of time...photo's show a grave with lots of flowers etc ...to the righthand one which is much simpler. Vanishing? This parrot is late..dead...ceased to be, expired...graves ..cemeteries...Lake Volta ...dam submerging a place underwater? In 1973Comment
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You're a whizz, vint!
In Venice, on the cemetery island of San Michele, close together, are the graves of Stravinsky and Diaghilev. A few yards away is the grave of Ezra Pound.
(I know the latter wasn’t, as far as I know, musical, but I needed a third component, and Vera, who is buried next to husband Igor, is even less well known musically than Ezra!)
‘As given’, was meant to imply that the physical layout of the question reflected the relative positions of the three graves. The parrot, of course, was an ‘ex-parrot’.
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Vinteuil - Congratulations and well done!
Knew I should have kept my mouth shut! No good at such cryptic stuff (or anything else).My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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Hear!Hear!Originally posted by Pianorak View PostVinteuil - Congratulations and well done!Comment
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Damn good clue, Don and well done Vinteuil....and there was me wittering on in a seemingly parallel universe
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While I was puzzling over Don's question earlier this morning, Katie Derham played a recording of a Vivaldi concerto by La Serenissima. 'Oh yes, that's a reference to Venice' I said to the lady wife, who pretended to be impressed. She would have been more impressed if I'd continued to bear Venice in mind...
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Glad you enjoyed it! Always worried that I'd been too cryptic, but we've been going around for a while, and I don't think it hurts to vary the style a little now and again, as a change from the 'standard question'.Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves View PostDamn good clue, Don and well done Vinteuil....and there was me wittering on in a seemingly parallel universe
I'm travelling back home later, but will be back on line this evening to see what you're all doing. (So best behavior, please.
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Which of us hasn't thought that about our own questions at times?Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
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thanks...Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
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Oh, I just knew it was to do with Diaghilev and Ballets Russes, hence Le Train Bleu! On the other flipper, I am mightily glad I did not get a correct answer and have to set a puzzle!
I am surely not clever enough for that. I console myself that I introduced the MB to Samuel Medley and to Caliban and his possibly long lost ancestor. Really good thread this is, even for those of us who just lurk in the shadows.
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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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Is this the W clue? Just checking...for if it is, I haven't got a clue.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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yep, that's yr W clue...Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves View PostIs this the W clue? Just checking...for if it is, I haven't got a clue.
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"... Following which, what are 'travels' and 'tempests', anyway?" ...Comment
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