Comments on: A horse of that colour

By: RIP Mary Travers 1936-2009 – confused of calcutta

RIP Mary Travers 1936-2009 – confused of calcutta — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:04:51 +0000

[...] PP&M one of my favourite groups, something I’ve written about here, here, here, here and here. Rocky Road has lifted my spirits on so many dark days when I was young. [Intriguingly, I can only [...]

By: Harsha

Harsha — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:56 +0000

hey one of those posts i would like to Hoard. Thank you for sharing this, i think i’ve learnt many many new things today.

By: Ashish Banerjee

Ashish Banerjee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:15:41 +0000

Hi JP, if memory serves, the Pied Piper of Hamelin was (we’re told by the poet) attired in “vesture piebald,” maybe that’s where you might have first come across the word?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:22:42 +0000

Thank you.

By: Anant

Anant — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:16:59 +0000

JP,

Another influence, surely. Dick Francis.

And @Shefali and @JP. The only time I have been to a race course is when a friend told me of a ‘fixed’ race and asked me to bet my shirt on a horse called Afflatus. When I reached the course and saw that the Afflatus was a 7 to 1 outsider, I chickened out and went home without laying a bet.

The gain, to me, was I learnt what Afflutus meant. The dictionary.com definition, most appropriate to the post and to Shefaly’s comment: inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within.

BTW, Afflatus romped home by five lengths, I learnt the next morning, and gave up all thoughts of gambling as a profession.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:41:14 +0000

@ JP:

Your two previous posts were of course my top reads for the week. But this thread reminded me of America’s A Horse With No Name.

I agree with you on the need to preserve richness of language coming from passions and whims. The horse can be much conversation fodder as has been apparent in your last two posts :-)