Yes, it was definitely the Talmud that Alkan was almost certainly not trying to reach when the bookcase almost certainly did not fall on him.
While Tristan has a point, facetious I’m sure, about the collective weight of the Talmud being potentially fatal, it’s a bunch of volumes, so if it falls on you it’s more like, say, the New Grove than a big rock. > On Aug 1, 2019, at 11:12 PM, Alain Veylit <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think you are right about the Talmud. My memory of the episode is murky as > Hell! Well, it happened in 1888, so you must have been very young. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
