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  • What is opera? ;)

    From Alexander Koryagin@2:221/6 to All on Mon Nov 29 21:09:12 2021
    Hi, All!

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

    Bye, All!
    Alexander Koryagin

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  • From Ardith Hinton@1:153/716 to Alexander Koryagin on Mon Dec 6 23:12:13 2021
    Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to All:

    "Daddy, what is opera?"
    "Well, it is when one person kills another and
    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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