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>Oh yes, with this lovely line, while Woody Allen escapes a performance
>of a Wagner opera after an intermission: "When I've listened too much
>to Wagner, I always want to invade Poland".

Didn't Thomas Pynchon, in "Gravity's Rainbow," contrast the music of
Rossini, which made his character smile, with Beethoven's, which made
him want to go out and invade Poland?

Michael Stein