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4 And probably proves something or other,
5 Unless it doesn't.

CHAPTER 15
1 Later on, there was still another great Kraut composer named aBeethoven,
2 Who was also great,
3 Though deaf,
4 Which may explain why nobody in history has ever written music any louder than Beethoven's,
5 bExcept Wagner, of course,
6 But doesn't begin to explain why he thought that symphonies with ceven numbers don't quite count.

CHAPTER 16
1 In fact, there were lots and lots of great Kraut composers,
2 Including dSchubert,
3 Who was so great that he didn't even have to finish his symphonies,
4 And a whole bunch of Strausses,
5 Who thought the Danube was blue,
6 And other things.
7 There was also eWagner,
8 Which just goes to show you,
9 fPigs may not write symphonies, but they're the only ones who can sing certain kinds of goperas.

CHAPTER 17
1 The Krauts were also pretty excellent at architecture,
2 hAnd built a lot of tremendous cathedrals and castles and cities and so forth,
3 iNot to mention all the great steel-and-concrete buildings they put up when the jindustrial revolution came along,
a.Dav.10.10
b.Krt.16.7
c.Psp.3.5
Psp.3.7
Psay.5Y.16
Krt.36.8
d.Dav.42.7
e.Ed.63.3
f.Yks.116.16
g.Krt.30.3-4
h.Brit.29.12
i.Ira.21.37-38
j.Adam.5.1-8
k.Yks.125.34
l.Krt.5.25
m.Ext.39.18-19
n.Krt.4.8-12
o.Ann.18.17
p.Grk.23.12-13
q.Krt.5.15
4 kWhich were all so big and well made that you'd have thought they were expecting someone to drop a lot of bombs on them or something,
5 Which they weren't, of course,
6 lBecause it's just not true that the Krauts were obsessed with war and destruction and things like that,
7 mWith the possible exception of a few maladjusted individuals,
8 Who weren't at all like the rest of the Krauts,
9 And never had been,
10 Because while the rest of the Krauts were producing all that great culture,
11 Over hundreds of years,
12 A few were otherwise engaged.

CHAPTER 18
1 For example, some of the few maladjusted individuals were the nPrussians,
2 Who had a ruling class called the Junkers,
3 Meaning scar-faced, bald-headed psychopaths who think that everything everybody else does is junk,
4 oAnd should be destroyed with a lot of blood and iron.
5 While the rest of the Krauts were messing around with culture and other junk like that,
6 The Prussians started practicing up on all the things they'd need to rule the world someday,
7 Like pwar,
8 qAnd clicking their heels together a lot,