Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

ah, I've just returned to my computer and seen that

a P is coming ............

These days, Ps come with monotonous regularity and frequency.

"A young man when he has to, an old man when he can" - the wisdom of the ages

[mercia]

ah, the philosophy of micturition

Confucius, he say ..........

[Angle]

Pizzetti

[mercia]

Pizzetti

well done Angle, and why?

[Angle]

Ildebrando Pizzetti

a) based his opera, "Assassino dela cathedrale" on the Eliot play
b) Three Petrarch songs
and
c) the libretto of his opera "Fedra" was by Gabriele D'Annunzio

[rubbernecker]

These days, Ps come with monotonous regularity and frequency.

"A young man when he has to, an old man when he can" - the wisdom of the ages

It's the fear that it will become progressively worse as you get older. The way the adverts in the service station urinals taunt you "Do you worry when the next one will be?". The day you have regretfully to pass on that ticket to Das Rheingold. The beginning of the end....

[Tapiola]

These days, Ps come with monotonous regularity and frequency.

"A young man when he has to, an old man when he can" - the wisdom of the ages

Were they indefinitely inactive?

At Stephen's suggestion, at Bloom's instigation both, first Stephen, then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their gazes, first Bloom's, then Stephen's, elevated to the projected luminous and semiluminous shadow.




Similarly?

The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter, who in his ultimate year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure.




What different problems presented themselves to each concerning the invisible audible collateral organ of the other?

To Bloom: the problems of irritability, tumescence, rigidity, reactivity, dimension, sanitariness, pilosity.

To Stephen: the problem of the sacerdotal integrity of Jesus circumcised (I January, holiday of obligation to hear mass and abstain from unnecessary servile work) and the problem as to whether the divine prepuce, the carnal bridal ring of the holy Roman catholic apostolic church, conserved in Calcata, were deserving of simple hyperduly or of the fourth degree of latria accorded to the abscission of such divine excrescences as hair and toenails.

[Angle]

Actually, 3 Sonetti del Petrarca

[mercia]

Ildebrando Pizzetti

a) based his opera, "Assassino dela cathedrale" on the Eliot play
b) Three Petrarch songs
and
c) the libretto of his opera "Fedra" was by Gabriele D'Annunzio

well done, sorry for the delay, otherwise occupied



I think you're allowed to omit Q (should you want to) and go on to R

[Angle]

Merci, mercia.

I felt it my duty to try a Q because I departed so swiftly earlier on. There are still plenty of Q words to try and this one, as they always say, is simple.


What Q links a high performance car being dramatically vocal, an environmentally sound man being ecclesiastically vocal and a lively ice-cream man being meteorologically instrumental?

[Tapiola]

Quat(t)ro?

Quatro rusteghi (Wolf Ferrari)
Quattro Pezzi Sacri (Verdi)
Quattro Stagioni (Vivaldi).

[amateur51]

Merci, mercia.

I felt it my duty to try a Q because I departed so swiftly earlier on. There are still plenty of Q words to try and this one, as they always say, is simple.


What Q links a high performance car being dramatically vocal, an environmentally sound man being ecclesiastically vocal and a lively ice-cream man being meteorologically instrumental?

Great clues, Angle!

Would a drawing be possible?

[mercia]

I don't get the 'ice cream man' bit

[Angle]

Tapiola got them all - which version of the puzzle did he get. I deleted the first one

The lively icecream man was "Oh, oh Antonio" who had an ice-cream cart. Remember ?

Roll on the R's, Tapiola, with many thanks for your lexicographically challenging quotes from Joyce.

[Tapiola]

I must admit, Angle, that it was the first version of the puzzle that I saw. The more cryptified version would certainly have take me far longer to unravel...

An easy R:

What R

- could be first, second or third;
- is just going through a phase; and
- was, by extension, a good pal of Beethoven?