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   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....  :-)   
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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