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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12367

    well I never.

    Anyways - Stravinsky and Diaghilev are certainly there...

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12367

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      well I never.

      Anyways - Stravinsky and Diaghilev are certainly there...
      ... and of course Ezra Pound ( ex-pound - geddit?) - ho ho

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      • BetweenTheStaves

        The dots seem to suggest the elapse of time...photo's show a grave with lots of flowers etc ...to the righthand one which is much simpler. Vanishing? This parrot is late..dead...ceased to be, expired...graves ..cemeteries...Lake Volta ...dam submerging a place underwater? In 1973

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        • Don Petter

          You're a whizz, vint!





          In Venice, on the cemetery island of San Michele, close together, are the graves of Stravinsky and Diaghilev. A few yards away is the grave of Ezra Pound.

          (I know the latter wasn’t, as far as I know, musical, but I needed a third component, and Vera, who is buried next to husband Igor, is even less well known musically than Ezra!)

          ‘As given’, was meant to imply that the physical layout of the question reflected the relative positions of the three graves. The parrot, of course, was an ‘ex-parrot’.


          Over to you for a W ...
          Last edited by Guest; 06-02-11, 11:41. Reason: Finger trouble

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          • Pianorak
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3120

            Vinteuil - Congratulations and well done!

            Knew I should have kept my mouth shut! No good at such cryptic stuff (or anything else).
            My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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            • Norfolk Born

              Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
              Vinteuil - Congratulations and well done!
              Hear!Hear!

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              • BetweenTheStaves

                Damn good clue, Don and well done Vinteuil....and there was me wittering on in a seemingly parallel universe

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                • Norfolk Born

                  While I was puzzling over Don's question earlier this morning, Katie Derham played a recording of a Vivaldi concerto by La Serenissima. 'Oh yes, that's a reference to Venice' I said to the lady wife, who pretended to be impressed. She would have been more impressed if I'd continued to bear Venice in mind...

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                  • Don Petter

                    Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves View Post
                    Damn good clue, Don and well done Vinteuil....and there was me wittering on in a seemingly parallel universe
                    Glad you enjoyed it! Always worried that I'd been too cryptic, but we've been going around for a while, and I don't think it hurts to vary the style a little now and again, as a change from the 'standard question'.

                    I'm travelling back home later, but will be back on line this evening to see what you're all doing. (So best behavior, please. )

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                    • Norfolk Born

                      Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                      Always worried that I'd been too cryptic
                      Which of us hasn't thought that about our own questions at times?

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12367

                        Originally posted by Don Petter View Post

                        Over to you for a W ...
                        thanks...

                        "... Following which, what are travels and tempests, anyway?" ...

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                        • Anna

                          Oh, I just knew it was to do with Diaghilev and Ballets Russes, hence Le Train Bleu! On the other flipper, I am mightily glad I did not get a correct answer and have to set a puzzle! I am surely not clever enough for that. I console myself that I introduced the MB to Samuel Medley and to Caliban and his possibly long lost ancestor. Really good thread this is, even for those of us who just lurk in the shadows.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26320

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            I console myself that I introduced the MB to Samuel Medley and to Caliban and his possibly long lost ancestor. Really good thread this is, even for those of us who just lurk in the shadows.


                            "...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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                            • BetweenTheStaves

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              thanks...

                              "... Following which, what are travels and tempests, anyway?" ...
                              Is this the W clue? Just checking...for if it is, I haven't got a clue.

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12367

                                Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves View Post
                                Is this the W clue? Just checking...for if it is, I haven't got a clue.
                                yep, that's yr W clue...
                                To help -

                                "... Following which, what are 'travels' and 'tempests', anyway?" ...

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