wiki-illiam #104: q5
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dubdobdee5: Travelling from Nordic lands, try unravelling:
i: the eponymous traitor,
ii: then Merrill's famed fisherman partner
iii: and a misplaced cygnet,
iv: contrasting with a little anser,
v: thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,
vi: while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,
vii: and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport
viii: and try to catch a little trout
ix: or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative
x: before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality
the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running
spoilers: i is vidkun quisling of norway (its collaborating under the nazis, hence a "quisling"); iii is hans christian andersen's ugly duckling, of denmark -- can't work out the overall idea though (ie what "unravel" might mean)
i: the eponymous traitor,
ii: then Merrill's famed fisherman partner
iii: and a misplaced cygnet,
iv: contrasting with a little anser,
v: thousands of whose elders visit a Waddenzee barrier island,
vi: while in Belgium, memories of Ursula are awakened by a Flemish Primitive,
vii: and in the Amblève, or perhaps the Lesse, one might confusingly make geometry a sport
viii: and try to catch a little trout
ix: or even its seemingly lepidopteran relative
x: before celebrating in Germany with Piesport's speciality
the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running
spoilers: i is vidkun quisling of norway (its collaborating under the nazis, hence a "quisling"); iii is hans christian andersen's ugly duckling, of denmark -- can't work out the overall idea though (ie what "unravel" might mean)
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Date: 2009-01-05 01:43 pm (UTC)Guess should we look in Norway/Sweden/Denmark for ii, then.
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Date: 2009-01-05 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-05 01:51 pm (UTC)The tenor-baritone duet "Au fond du temple saint" from the opera The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet, which he [ie Robert Merrill - am] recorded with Jussi Björling, was always top of listener's polls for the BBC's Your Hundred Best Tunes.
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Date: 2009-01-05 01:58 pm (UTC)(the conceit is at fault i suppose)
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Date: 2009-01-06 12:50 am (UTC)