I Am a Composer by Arthur Honegger (1951) This was a lucky find in a Hay-on-Wye bookshop back in the early 1980s.
Although the novel is set in a fantasy land - Ankh-Morpork - far, far away from Wales, a Hay-on-Wye connection still exists: Pratchett's parents live in the town.
"Yeah, I'll probably send him a note on like, you know, 'Bring an extra pair of khakis and a couple of shirts.' " Sure enough, during Mr. Lazio's statewide bus tour last week, the candidate changed from a dress shirt to a blue-and-white checked number before sitting down in front of a camera on a hay bale on a dairy farm in Burke, not far from Canada.
But the festival, perhaps more akin to a Muslim Hay-on-Wye than the music festival it has been compared to, also represents an opportunity for the expected 4,500 attendees to discuss the issues pertinent to them in contemporary Britain.
Decatur is a bit Hay-on-Wye (it hosts the largest independent book festival in the country), and a bit Oktoberfest (check out the annual Decatur Beer Tasting Festival).
The Nygrens serve an afternoon tea, and guests are invited to help feed the animals on Saturday mornings, to gather around a lakeside bonfire on Saturday nights, and to take a hay ride on Sunday mornings.
You could power a hay ride on their nutty ideas.
This study was designed to evaluate the effect of the physical form of a hay diet on total tract digestibility in ponies, with particular emphasis in fibre digestion and digesta passage rate.
Between a construction fence and a bale of hay on a dirt lot, a yellow sign advertises the lawn sprinkler specialists at the Green Turf Irrigation Company.
It doesn't have a theme – like Hay-on-Wye, with its bookshops – or a celebrity chef plugging it.
'Do you want to win?' We were in a restaurant in Hay-on-Wye, where the Orange prize staff were hosting a lunch for the 2005 shortlist.
