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MOZART
When
Mozart passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple
days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery
and heard some strange noise coming from the area where
Mozart was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the
priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to
the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming
from the grave.
Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.
When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave,
listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Mozart's
Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."
He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the
Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling."
So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh...the
Sixth...the Fifth..." Suddenly the realization of what
was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and
announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery,
"My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about.
It's just Mozart decomposing."
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