[Healeys] Friday Funny: Beethoven RIP

P.M. Pollock pollpete at ix.netcom.com
Fri Apr 11 18:18:22 MDT 2008


       A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a
       sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts
       searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and
       finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads:
       Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827. Then he realizes that the music
       is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward!

       Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to
       return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the
       music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but
       like the previous piece, it is being played backward.

       Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When they
       return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again
       backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being
       played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the
       9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.

       By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered
       around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony
       being played backward. Just then the graveyard's caretaker
       ambles up to the group.

       Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation for the
       music.........


       "Don't you get it?" the caretaker says incredulously. "He's
       decomposing."


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