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If only I could share the secret! The only clue I'll give is this:
As the ANT army treks across the forest, and the ESKIMO sleeps in his igloo, so does the ALBATROSS fly and the COW moo.
Saying any more would give it away.
Anybody with half a brain would understand this clue.
I don't know why this didn't JUMP OUT at me earlier . . .
"As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ANTS worshipping a toad-stool."
"Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan -- to an ANT or a flea -- such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent."
"I impute it, though, to their naturally unctuous natures, being rendered still more unctuous by the nature of their vocation, and especially by their pursuing their game in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that ESQUIMAUX country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil."
"Only the most unprejudiced of men like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the ESQUIMAUX are not so fastidious."
"Bethink thee of the ALBATROSS, whence come those clouds of spiritual wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all imaginations?"
"But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and ALBATROSS."
"I remember the first ALBATROSS I ever saw. It was during a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the Antarctic seas."
"But some time after, I learned that goney was some seaman's name for ALBATROSS."
"For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to be an ALBATROSS. Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet."
"Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb -- one engaged forward and the other aft -- the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an ALBATROSS, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing."
"I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey ALBATROSS."
"Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes -- the two parts of the wrecked boat having been previously secured by her -- and then hoisting everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stun-sails, like the double-jointed wings of an ALBATROSS."
"South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead, the Goney (ALBATROSS) by name."
"There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled COW feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye."
"Keeping at the centre of the lake, we were occasionally visited by small tame COWS and calves; the women and children of this routed host."
"I mention this circumstance, because, as if the COWS and calves had been purposely locked up in this innermost fold; and as if the wide extent of the herd had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its stopping."
. . . Don't you see? It's GOTTA be "Moby Dick" (1956) by Philip Sainton!
This can only mean one thing -- the box consists of scores by composers who only wrote one film score in their entire careers.
No, I mean complete scores of all the "Moby Dick" movies 1930, 1956, 1978, 1998 (TV) and 1999 (edited from footage Orson Welles shot in 1971).
No, scores of movies with screenplays by Ray Bradbury.
Scores of movies with an Orson Welles cameo?
Scores of John Huston movies?
Am I even close?
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No.
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I once reasoned that not unlike the sands in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives, so I guess we'll just have to wait until that piece of sand drops on that particular day.
Lord, that's profound.
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That's great! I forgot that Khan died flailing.
Kids- DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!
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I once reasoned that not unlike the sands in the hourglass, so are the days of our lives, so I guess we'll just have to wait until that piece of sand drops on that particular day.
Well that gives it away, it's a selection of scores from films featuring the "DESERT"."Lawrence of Arabia", The Lion of the Desert", who knows??
I sure as hell don't.
If I'm gonna die, there are worse ways to go than "flailing".
The original "Exodus" cover was blue, it's a box disc set of the score from "Exodus".
Two discs of the original score.
Six discs containing all the versions of the theme that have been recorded in the last forty years.
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Addendum: Why did Lois Lane always have such a Butch hair-do back in them thar days?
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Ah well, still no news or even a hint of whatever is in the "Box", I think I've flailed myself into exhaustion, so instead of flailing I'm going to wish you all.....
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
and all the best for 2008.
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If the box is related to John Williams, the only INDY score I see included is RAIDERS.
why?
1. it is oop and highly desired "Beloved and famous"
2. released in 1981 it fits the time frame of FSM releases (25 years plus)
nah!!!!!!!!!
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A British callbox? Well, could be a blue telephone booth which brings up the nagging Superman score thing again. I see neither of these as happening though.
The tardis isn't really a 'telephone booth' but a POLICE callbox: they were positioned in cities at intervals, and had little 'offices' inside too, for police on the beat, which I suppose provided the jokey idea of a box that has too much crammed inside it.
But much as I love Ron Grainer, you wouldn't really want 8 CDs of honks and wails from the BBC radiophonic workshop, believe me. (Mind you, if it IS that, I'll have to emigrate to another dimension.)
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