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• Take it away, Eric the Orchestra Leader!
• A sinking ship gathers no moss. -- Donald Kaul
• If the ship's not sinking, the rats must be the ones not leaving.
• The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Sandburg.
  -- Edmund Wilso...
• Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra
• All his life he has looked away... to the horizon, to the sky, to the future.
  Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing. -- Yoda...
• He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
  -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- The Whistle, November, 1779...