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Big Ben Strikes Again

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The ginormity of it is only now sinking in. If Wagner’s Ring is the longest piece of music ever written, then fittingly, I reckon, script-wise Bikwil 10 must have been bigger than Ben. A humungous publication it was, actually, and splendiferously satisfying! Believe me, I couldn’t put it down. (I could barely pick it up.) I assume the fat lady has quit singing now?
— Cecil Bieder-Mill

I suppose the Wagnerian Bik
Might have left a few old Germans sick.
But at least such a treat
Gave a fine Ring-side seat,
And, thank God, no ostpolitik.
— The Brandenburg Gatekeeper

While I respect your Herculean efforts, I regret to inform you that Bikwil’s mammoth Wagner offering was far too burdensome for a man of my advanced years and state of health. More to the point, it gave me much too much food for melancholy thought. If this prolixity is a sign of things to come, there’s a sober lesson in it for all of us. Quiet enthusiasms indeed. Runaway bourgeois anti-hero worship, more like it. What about the workers?
— Charles Marks (retd)

I’m Siegfried, and so’s my wife.
— The Full M. Python

Whenever I hear the word “Wagner”, I reach for my revolver.
— Katisha

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