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