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    #16351
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    He might, but not on my watch!

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      #16352
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      finding shoe laces (they have kept breaking lately )
      Time to re-read Nicholson Baker's first (and still my favourite) novel, The Mezzanine, one of whose main motifs is the breaking of shoe-laces (and how baffling the asymmetry - why does one always break before the other?) - not forgetting the work referred to on page 132 of the book - 'Methods for Evaluating the Abrasion Resistance and Knot Slippage Strength of Shoe Laces', Z Czaplicki, Technik Wlokienniczy. 1984, 33 no. 1, 3-4.
      Last edited by vinteuil; 24-03-12, 19:57. Reason: spilleng mistook

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        #16353
        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
        Time to re-read Nicholson Baker's first (and still my favourite) novel, The Mezzanine, one of whose main motifs is the breaking of shoe-laces (and how baffling the assymetry - why does one always break before the other?) - not forgetting the work referred to on page 132 of the book - 'Methods for Evaluating the Abrasion Resistance and Knot Slippage Strength of Shoe Laces', Z Czaplicki, Technik Wlokienniczy. 1984, 33 no. 1, 3-4.
        It would be a re-read too, I read it years ago... but had forgotten that detail!!! And it's true, it's always the right one that goes, in my case. To do with being right handed and exerting more force, perhaps...
        "...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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          #16354
          Spooky! I've broken two shoelaces (both of 'em right feet) this week dressing for work, too!

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          an insomniac who shares her name with a rather large gun.
          Bertha? Mason (the first Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea)?
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            #16355
            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Spooky! I've broken two shoelaces (both of 'em right feet) this week dressing for work, too!


            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Bertha?
            Yes! You are on the way.

            The other Rochester / Sargasso is not relevant.
            "...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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              #16356
              Originally posted by Caliban;144158[COLOR="#0000FF"
              Yes! You are on the way.

              The other Rochester / Sargasso is not relevant. [/COLOR]
              Well, there's also Freud's patient, Bertha Pappenheim, whose sister (?cousin) Marie wrote the libretto for Schönberg's Erwartung, the protagonist of which has one helluva sleepless night! But this seems unduly convoluted. Even more so if I suggest that the "disabled youth" might be Moonstruck Peter (/Pierrot Lunaire)? And I can't think of any Schönberbian fishes (other than a twelve note roe) ?
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                #16357
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                Well, there's also Freud's patient, Bertha Pappenheim, whose sister (?cousin) Marie wrote the libretto for Schönberg's Erwartung, the protagonist of which has one helluva sleepless night! But this seems unduly convoluted. Even more so if I suggest that the "disabled youth" might be Moonstruck Peter (/Pierrot Lunaire)? And I can't think of any Schönberbian fishes (other than a twelve note roe) ?


                Eggsellent, fhg!

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                  #16358
                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  Well, there's also Freud's patient, Bertha Pappenheim, whose sister (?cousin) Marie wrote the libretto for Schönberg's Erwartung, the protagonist of which has one helluva sleepless night! But this seems unduly convoluted. Even more so if I suggest that the "disabled youth" might be Moonstruck Peter (/Pierrot Lunaire)? And I can't think of any Schönberbian fishes (other than a twelve note roe) ?
                  WOW.... no, fhg, you're over-thinking it! Unduly convoluted indeed.

                  It was worth it for the 12-tone roe gag though!

                  The answer is all around you, staring you in the ears.
                  "...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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                    #16359
                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    WOW.... no, fhg, you're over-thinking it! Unduly convoluted indeed.

                    It was worth it for the 12-tone roe gag though!

                    The answer is all around you, staring you in the ears.

                    Ah! Might I work it out over the next week or so?
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      #16360
                      Like, f'rinstance, Berta's Lied in der nacht, a Trout by ... is it Duncan Schubert? Did he do a disabled lad, too?
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        #16361
                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Ah! Might I work it out over the next week or so?
                        Hahaha! I like your style, fhg!

                        Yes Bertha's Night Song.

                        Fred Schubert it is! (I bet everyone hates me now.)

                        Not trout...

                        The lad in question was visually handicapped.
                        "...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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                          #16362
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          The lad in question was visually handicapped.[/COLOR]
                          Der Blinde Knabe

                          and Der Fischer?
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            #16363
                            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                            Der Blinde Knabe

                            and Der Fischer?

                            Yes to the unfortunate knabe. There's something more precise for the piscatorial element

                            Clue: D933
                            "...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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                              #16364
                              Generous in his output, our Duncan!
                              Des Fischers Liebesglück D933.

                              (Who is this Derek Fisher???)
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                                #16365
                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Generous in his output, our Duncan!
                                Des Fischers Liebesglück D933.

                                (Who is this Derek Fisher???)
                                Des Fisher - you know, Ron's brother.

                                FHG you have excelled with my very boring S. I invite you to T.
                                "...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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