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Are you trying to make me even sadder Chris DeLaurenti left you guys?
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'Richard Strauss, initially dismissive of Tristan, claimed that Wagner's music "would kill a cat and would turn rocks into scrambled eggs from fear of [its] hideous dischords." '

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Billy Wilder on Wagner: "I went to the opera to see something by Wagner, and it started at 8 o'clock. when i checked my watch at midnight, it said 8:15 pm."
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@3, my mother's way of introducing me to opera was to take me at age ten to Gotterdammerung. The ticket was very expensive, she said. Yeesh.
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Brendan

If you don't post about Mark Twain's essay on James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, I will.

Bill
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Katzenjammer translates to 'caterwauling', the screaming of Cats.

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