beethoven or bust

my friends have this bust of beethoven in their dining room. it's great, you set the table and his scowl commands as if to say, "so, you're going to go ahead and serve pearl onions, are you?" (i hear he is partial to potatoes au gratin). regardless, one thing beethoven never was? passive.

while practicing his 5th symphony tonight at orchestra, our conductor told us that ludwig was so passionate, in fact, that he broke almost every piano he played. they kept making new ones and he kept on breaking them. but he could not bust the modern steinway. it is beethoven-proof.

so go ahead, eat the pearl onions and pound away on the piano. they're not going to hurt you and you couldn't possibly hurt it.