Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

AK>  "Daddy, what is opera?"
AK>  "Well, it is when one person kills another and 
AK>  sings after it." 


         ... usually in Italian, German, or French.  :-Q

         I've noticed similar tendencies in Shakespeare's plays.  The plots are often quite complicated, and when various people get into a brawl in Act V they go on at length to inform us they're dying.  Maybe that is what had to be done, years ago, to reassure paying audiences they'd got their money's worth....  :-)




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