Wordie: Cadenza: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 6 months ago

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:44:40 +0000

It is if you whistle it the right way.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:23:24 +0000

You mean this is *not* an article of furniture?

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:24:47 +0000

"There was no point in preparing a careful, ordered statement; everything would depend on the first moments, on the presence or absence of French officers, on his reception; and from that point on it would be an improvisation, a cadenza. He whistled the Montserrat Salve Regina, embroidering the theme." --Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 254