WitchOfDoubt Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Here lies a conductor in reverie grim, In life, he beat me - In the end, I beat him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 This answer seemed too obvious, but... You are death? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WitchOfDoubt Posted December 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Nope, and please spoiler guesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 drum major? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cavenglok Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 The narrator from Black Cat? jk jk. How about The soul? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WitchOfDoubt Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Hmm. I wonder if the idiom referenced in this riddle is too obscure. Oh, well. What does a conductor beat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Physically - a stand Not so physically - music.song Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thalia Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WitchOfDoubt Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Thalia's got it! (Inspired by this actual epitaph for a conductor: Stephen and Time are now both even - Stephen beat time, and now Time's beat Stephen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thalia Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 That's an interesting way to look at it. It made so much more sense when I stopped thinking about train conductors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Here lies a conductor
in reverie grim,
In life, he beat me -
In the end, I beat him.
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