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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