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Is the first word of the puzzle really "It" - or should it be "I" ?
"...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..."
"I was a horror once called Camilla?" No, certainly not!
Just checking!
"...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..."
It was a horror once called Camilla, but then attained great happiness, with two fires burning on it in the South Pacific.
Staring at this for sometime, I haven't got any further than Camilla, ossia il sotterano, an Italian opera based upon a "horror" opera at the time of the French revolution. Subsequently LVB wrote Fidelio, based on same story. It- alian???
I've been going up hill and down dale with this, I simply can't get anywhere!
Most intriguing!
"...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..."
not surprisingly the Rachmaninov predates that (and probably isn't a very happy piece)
I guess we're looking for other (musical ?) isles ?
Yes Mercia, right on both counts here. (Apologies too, I realise my sentence should have read "It also was a horror first called Camilla....
I was going to change that this morning, but you got there unaided! Personally I don't think pre or post dating should really come into it - it's hard enough to think of
clues at all! The pieces are not mentioned in chronological order either, though I guess with a little more thought I could have manufactured a sentence which did that.)
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