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It struck me there were a number of (mostly) unrelated famous guys named Eno. I decided there should be some sort of Eno-related trivial contest whose contestants have to guess which Eno is being referenced with various trivia.

Lyric-via-Wikipedia: entirely justified fact-truffle-sniffing, in this case.

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Perfumes and strategies, and systems of bells…
Plays based on nothing, magnets thrown down a well…
Sibling assembling random tones by the hour…
A hero to cabbies...engineered rhythm power.

But which
won’t switch at the transfer of fingers?
This name
the same evokes ghosts, a view lingers.
As spirits are raised, drained, and
summoned in praise, strains
of puzzlement will quiz all
present and still, this is it:

The game of the curious surname that is Eno.
There’s Brian and Roger, and Will, and Jim, plus the ghost we know
as the father of traffic laws, the eminent William Phelps Eno:
Pray name them correctly...or prove you a naive bambino!

Semiconductors, mixing, Wurlitzer, too—
Unembarrassed to work with that harmonica dude…
Title and deed, indeed a season of flu…
Used to blow the euphonium...could not drive but still you

Will play the game of the curious surname that is Eno.
There’s Brian and Roger, and Will, and Jim, plus the ghost we know
as the father of traffic laws, the eminent William Phelps Eno:
As spirits are drained, crazed, as tumbling strays pray,
as Enophile connoisseur voices pile on as your…

Bits flame if you name the Wrong Eno!
(Did you get it? If not it’s exotic, but it’s not a set-up...)
Please reform your poor form before we know
(...thought, but a lot of what gets unknotted ought to be thought.)
you’re a scam at your amateur plea, no…
(Let it upset its setting, better bet it gets a guess then...)
You’re a poseur who chose the Wrong Eno!
(...vet it, or rot it: yes, it’s set, not stopped at bottom.)

Play the game of the curious surname that is Eno.
There’s Brian and Roger, and Will, and Jim, plus the ghost we know
as the father of traffic laws the eminent William Phelps Eno:
Pray name them correctly...or prove you a naive bambino!

Random code set in bold Palatino…
Going vague in a Vegas casino…
Super placid in acid amino…
No remorse quick divorce in old Reno…
Beta decays: hooray, a neutrino…
All aboard Stan’s old Ford Gran Torino…
Fast asleep wearing cheap fake merino…
Sing some lines whose words rhyme, end in “Eno”…

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from An Impressionist's Thumb, released December 1, 2022

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Just one guy with minimal gear whose main goal is to produce songs that sound like things he wants to hear...which, for some reason, no one else has bothered recording yet.

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