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"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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Nanohedron wrote:Which leads one to ask where the ram comes into it. A sheep clattering on cobbles? But that's stretching things, seems like.PB+J wrote:I wondered if it had something to do with dancers “battering”
Thinking of a young headstrong male dancer.
I suppose it could refer, joyfully, to the moment when the door to the great house was broken down. But the melody doesn't sound triumphal and it's got nothing at all of menace, or sorrow from the dispossessed.
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Goats butting heads! I hadn't thought of that one.
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Going back up the thread to my mention of Holy Wells: St Fíonnán's in Co Kerry is reportedly attracting a fair few people, looking for the cure against the virus. Fíonnán is believed to have stopped the plague, so why couldn't he do it again?
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