Walter Meyer ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Without going into the philosophy of whether one's country is indeed worth
>dying for, I think the phrase "to die for" applied to music is hyperbole
>which diminishes by its excess, something like the praise of Lear's two
>older daughters.

Which, if Dave will permit one digression, brings to mind a cartoon from a
couple of years back, with two medievallay-dressed youn women in castle,
and one saying to the other:  "So he's, like, 'To be or not to be?' and
I'm, like, 'Get a life!'"

Deryk Barker
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