Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

What part of me in IL only for this thread does not convey that message?

:mrgreen:

 

So both the puzzles solved now.

 

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES
(in invisible link if someone is still solving)


#1752
(highlight the text to see the answer)

THE DECAMERON


#1767
(highlight the text to see the answer)

John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's progress"

 

OK, here is another one.

Puzzle: Who is the writer represented in these visual clues.
Except pic#4 (trivia about the writer), the rest of the pictures should read like a rebus puzzle, what you see, spell, deduce (image#1, #2, #3) joined is the answer.


German touch for Herr sokanasanah, image 2-2 is German U40 submarine (that's it, don't need more info from the picture, merge with image 1-2 to decipher clue #2 in entirety)

Why the puzzle: Reading the writer's book last night, why not a puzzle on the name?

 

The pic is of a fellow raking leaves - looks like he's made some progress, since the lawn is mostly clear!

This 'clue' was a reference to 'A Rake's Progress' (anti-Hero Tom Rakewell!), a famous series of eight christian moralist paintings & engravings by the English painter William Hogarth, partly inspired by John Bunyan's book. Theme: "An idle mind is the devil's workshop".

Hogarth painted two series - the first of which was 'A Harlot's Progress'. These paintings have been lost, although the engravings survive. They can be seen at the Tate Gallery in London. (His other very famous etching is 'Gin Lane' a photograph of which I'm sure you have seen somewhere or the other!)

'A Rake's Progress' was a bigger hit. The subject attracted more interest with a ballet by Gavin Gordon (1935 - archival footage here) and an opera by Igor Stravinsky based on the paintings. This is the only opera Stravinsky wrote. The libretto was written by W.H. Auden with Chester Kallman. A production was once directed by Ingmar Bergman!

The paintings are on permanent display at Sir John Soane's Museum (his house) at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. Aria, you should go see them!

The opera is still a part of the modern repertoire. The Metropolitan Opera in New York will stage a production in a couple of weeks!

 

Yes, yes I'll go and greet them all right after I figure out who are all these people you are talking about faintingsmiley

Yes, seen this in one of those "Glorious Revolution" documentaries.

Soka, how do you remember so much. No one here at neurites ever wondered is that even a human brain to hold that load of information. Sometimes I wonder if you are the real 'Dr Who' in disguise in IL.

 

The only other Pilgrim's gradient that I've aware of is "Pilgrim's Regress" by C.S.Lewis.
Came across because of the screwtape letters

 

Soka - there it is!
There, there you see what you have done!

>>That pic in #1768 is a tangential clue to the book in puzzle-post #1752
You meant post#1767?

Do you have any idea how much I attempted to fit a straw hat and rake to literature on black death?