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oh.. still needed to go french at home.. well .. tata!

 

I am just curious now that 24 hours is crossed.

The way I worked out ,trying to convert "Ferragamo" -> "Ferrari" and then your ritaliation was a clue , "Ri" , that was the reason I asked immediately , is that a clue?

but since you mentioned it was not a clue , I was back to board.

Was that as deliberate as I interpreted? Because for me that appeared more forceful and direct than what continued.

Is there something else in any of the stanzas for this "literal" conversion that I missed? There seems to be something out there!

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Strange the number of ways we can interpret! Since "magnificent" /magnifico was italicized, I set on its trail but then linking it back to 'Magnifico' of Ferragamo.


I was checking if any of the Magnificent Seven stars kicked the bucket recently in BBC and this link comes up


BBC - BBC Children in Need - Chris Evans Breakfast Show Auction: The Magnificent Seven

(the Ferrari auction of magnificent seven)

I go back again and think, apply Ferragamo --> Ferrari conversion ( strongly believing that it was indeed a clue)

It was a fluke because I was sure Soka was not referring to this auction but the page helped me to put everything in pieces (reading Ferrari 7 times - Ferra + Ri ) and then I look up Ferrari to see how the dude looks like ...TA :biggrin2:

The Magnificent Seven - the cars

• 2011 FERRARI SA APERTA
• 1990 FERRARI F40
• 1985 FERRARI 288 GTO
• 1963 FERRARI 250 GT SWB
• 1965 FERRARI 275 GTS SPYDER
• 1961 FERRARI TR61
• 1963 FERRARI 250 GT LUSSO COMPETITION

I still thought of it as an animal , the deliberate usage of hooves , a horse , Ferrari's logo.


I think we might have read this puzzle in too many ways, too many directions than Soka intended! :biggrin2:

 

Soka should have asked

In quanti modi si può interpretare la poesia _ ;-)

 

In order to accommodate Sandhya’s request to keep answers from becoming spoilers, I have decided to do post the answer as ‘reversed text’. To right it, go to: http://textmechanic.com/Reverse-Text-Generator.html, copy and paste my post and click on ‘reverse text’ to retrieve the original. I hope this is sufficient retina-level encryption!

 

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I do not get any satisfaction out of making up an obscure, insoluble puzzle. I think that that's actually rather easy. I prefer many layered clues when I can manage them, so even a partial recognition will lead to the solution. This frees me from worrying about whether the target of the puzzle is known to the readers or not. I am then free to bring up any subject.

I would rather pick an obscure (but always interesting, I like to think, to me anyway!) subject and lead someone to it, who has never ever come across such a thing. The idea is that you should be able to find the answer even if you don't know the subject. The hope is that it will pique your interest. In trying to do that, I tend to lay it on pretty thick. Sometimes, the goal is to make the clues interesting in their own right.

In that Italian puzzle, my hope was that at least some readers will take the time to read the 'poem' in the original 'Italian' (in quotes because I would not want Montale to turn in his grave, provoked by my abuse of his language!). One could order a pizza in Italian and it comes out as poetry! No wonder it's the language of opera. Besides, it helps you catch sound clues as with 'afferrare' as Gauri did!

There are other subtleties as well - the translator produces very subtly different results based on how you paste things into it. Sometimes, two lines of the poem (split to ensure rhyme & scansion) placed to gather as one 'sentence' produces a better result. In other cases, English -> Italian -> English (or the converse) gives a different result, as was the case with "grind stones until dust" which is inelegant in English.

Ok, I'm carrying on - time to stop!