There's a problem with having your (only) computer in your office. I come in on Monday and find a brand new thread going onto 4 pages, lots of discussion, and already branching out into other subjects. Such is the nature of this amazing forum.

I had two responses to Faldage's original posting:
the first was that the statement about the Verdi Requiem is really funny and not far off base;
the second was to recall a bon mot of my father's: "He thinks he's a real wit, and he's half right."