Sir, – Writing as a leapling (ie someone who was born on February 29th), and given the natural affinity one feels for those with whom they share a birthdate, I am compelled to reflect on the aptly chosen words of musical critique offered by Gioachino Rossini to his contemporary Richard Wagner.
In what may be construed as a knowing application of the one-in-four logic that forms the basis of leap-year science, Rossini witheringly quipped that Wagner’s music “has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour”. – Yours, etc,
NORA
DOORLEY (aged 6/24),
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Brussels.