Bernard Chasan writes: >Add to this the 19th century corporate-conspiracy theory of wine >laced with lead to make it taste like fine-aged vintages posited by >Nicholas J. Yasillo and we have ourselves a lead-pipe (I mean lead-cup) >cinch that Beethoven was lead belly. Which seems apt, since one can clearly hear LB's "Goodnight Irene" quoted in the middle of the other LB's string quartet Op. 131... - seb