AtD: Three. Bilocations - Chapter 38 - Section 2 (531-540) . Tarantellical magic

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 07:43:46 CST 2015


Tarantella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Wikipedia
Tarantella is a group of various folk dances characterized by a fast
upbeat tempo, usually in 6/8 time (sometimes 18/8 or 4/4), accompanied
by tambourines.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Michel <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:
> On p. 535 of AtD, following the song text "Oh, the, Quizzical, queer,
> Quater-nioneer", "its (I guess the song?) time-signature working some
> ancient tarantellical magic as well"
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> Nor archives neither wiki says something about tarantellical - indeed
> Merriam-Webster does not to know the word. Anyone any ideas on this possible
> neologism? Related to the spider? Why combining it with magic?
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