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  • hedgehog

    Gulp. I is difficult! Working on it though.

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      It was irrelephant.


      (Oliphant)

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      • hedgehog

        Should be easy

        It was a horror once called Camilla, but then attained great happiness, with two fires burning on it in the South Pacific.

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26540

          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
          Should be easy
          They all say that!

          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..."

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          • hedgehog

            "I was a horror once called Camilla?" No, certainly not!

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
              great happiness
              Thinking aloud... Joy?
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • hedgehog

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                Joy?
                No.

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                • Nick Armstrong
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                  "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..."

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                  • hedgehog

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Joy?
                    As I said, no, a synonym though.

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                    • Quarky
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 2661

                      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                      Should be easy

                      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???
                      Last edited by Quarky; 13-02-13, 22:59.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                        As I said, no, a synonym though.
                        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..."

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                          As I said, no, a synonym though.
                          Bliss?
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Quarky
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 2661

                            Paradise?

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                            • mercia
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              nightshift

                              1945 horror film Isle of the Dead originally entitled Camilla

                              not surprisingly the Rachmaninov predates that (and probably isn't a very happy piece)

                              I guess we're looking for other (musical ?) isles ? enchanted ? joyeuse ? I see that 'joy' got an emphatic no

                              Bali Ha'i [Ambae] has one volcano apparently
                              Last edited by mercia; 14-02-13, 04:40.

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                              • hedgehog

                                Sorry - this hedgehog is diurnal!

                                Flay :
                                Bliss?
                                yes, that's the one.



                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                nightshift

                                1945 horror film Isle of the Dead originally entitled Camilla

                                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.)


                                Now for the rest!
                                Last edited by Guest; 14-02-13, 07:40.

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