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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    L of a memory Flay what about something that isn't second hand?
    No memory skills, I just put "Keble" into the "search thread" box and hey presto!

    And no worries. AA has covered most of Wiki by now.

    Sadly I haven't checked if this one has been used before. No doubt it has, but hopefully the clues will be different.

    Give me L

    A 1915 shipping tragedy

    Belinda’s hand

    A Byzantine monastery bell
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      I was rather too lazy in setting that. The third L is the act of doing the first and second L
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • subcontrabass
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 2780

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        Give me L

        A 1915 shipping tragedy

        Belinda’s hand

        A Byzantine monastery bell
        A lamentable question, I think.

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
          A lamentable question, I think.
          Indubitably. Care to explain why, dear Dumbledore?
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            Indubitably. Care to explain why, dear Dumbledore?
            Frank Bridge: Lament (for Catherine, aged 9, "Lusitania" 1915)

            Purcell: Dido's Lament - the introductory recitative starts "Thy hand, Belinda"

            Sir John Tavener: Lamentations and Praises includes a part for a Byzantine monastery bell

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Marvellous, subby!

              Moving on....
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • subcontrabass
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 2780

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                Marvellous, subby!

                Moving on....
                An M to link a cypher, a messenger, and an elf.

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                  An M to link a cypher, a messenger, and an elf.
                  Cypher... Messiaen? Just thinking out loud.
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • subcontrabass
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 2780

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Cypher... Messiaen? Just thinking out loud.
                    Several hundred years out.

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                      Several hundred years out.
                      Cypher - royal or encoded? Or something else?
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • subcontrabass
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2780

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        Cypher - royal or encoded? Or something else?
                        A musical cypher.

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                        • Flay
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 5795

                          Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                          A musical cypher.
                          You mean somebody like Philippe Rogier?
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Am I barking up the wrong tree?

                            Or just barking?
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • amateur51

                              not Mime is it?

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                              • subcontrabass
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 2780

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                You mean somebody like Philippe Rogier?
                                No, it is the name of the cypher using musical notation.

                                You might find it easier to start from the second clue: a messenger personified in music. An additional clue is that this one appears in third place but by a different logic might have come first.

                                In the third clue the elf is disguised (and also linked to one of the answers to the previous round).

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