This is a legend about Charles Valentin Alkan.
I don't really know if it's true though :)
It was probably the Talmud which has enough weight to crush you. No need
for the shelf.
On 01.08.19 23:10, Alain Veylit wrote:
Since Howard mentions the Torah and jeopardy, here is our summer
quiz/jeopardy question:
This 19th century pianist and composer died crushed by the fall of his
private library's (heavy) bookshelf as he was trying to reach the
Torah on the top shelf?
(High aspirations sometimes get you crushed under the weight...)
Alain
On 8/1/19 1:14 PM, G. C. wrote:
Ha-ha :))
Way too rich for my intelligence Howard. I'm afraid I don't have the
necessary "anglican" baggage to get those answers.
In another vein, the 50th aniversary of the Woodstock festival got
cancelled! I don't mind about Miley Cyrus, but Santana 50 years
later
would surely have been historically correct.
Best
G.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:04 PM howard posner
<[1]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:42 AM, G. C. <[2]kalei...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Always happy for answers
And I'm happy to oblige with some of my favorite answers:
"It's in his kiss"
"O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous."
"Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh"
"Put a piece of cheese on the floor and you'll find out."
"!"
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the
entire Torah; the rest is commentary. Go learn."
"I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would
happen"
No prizes will be awarded for knowing the questions; this isn't
"Jeopardy!"
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