{"id":13424,"date":"2010-11-17T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/17\/13424.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:06","slug":"encore-the-third-part-two-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/17\/encore-the-third-part-two-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Encore the Third part Two: the quickening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s consider this a new game, then, shall we? Matt H (also known as not-Matthew) has correctly guessed that my atoz consists of words from Sondheim songs. The list is inspired by the release of Finishing the Hat<\/a>, which I haven’t actually got my mitts on as yet, and which contains only lyrics up through 1981, whereas my atoz goes later than that.\n

Props also to Jed, who almost immediately guessed that these were all songs from musicals. I could not give him full credit for that, but was a pretty good guess before any songs had been identified as correct—and I think only four or five words had any songs at all. Still, it’s Matt that gets the laurel and hearty handshake, and the Bragging Units, too.\n

Now, are there enough Sondheim nuts here to come up with all 25 songs? With twelve? I swear I didn’t try to be utterly baffling, but as it has become clear that I was<\/i> baffling, let’s make the new rule that GRs are explicitly allowed to listen<\/i> to Sondheim songs in an attempt to find the words., although doing a search in the printed lyrics still seems to me to be cheating. Looking up the list of musicals, though, to spark a blocked brain, seems perfectly reasonable. So draw your own lines.\n

The List<\/strong>\n