Variations on an original theme

"Elgar is not a major figure in music history and we make a mockery of ourselves as a nation if we pretend that he is," said Mr Lebrecht - in today's Telegraph.

"Lebrecht is not a major figure in music journalism and we make a mockery of ourselves as a nation if we pretend that he is," said Mr Pliable - in today's On An Overgrown Path.

Now read, quite appropriately, about the excruciating boredom of pure fact.
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