For no reason I can quite pinpoint, I was reminded of Godwins Law recently and wanted to share my childish delight at discovering the Pig Latin reductio ad Hitlerum and, for baiting tankies, reductio ad Stalinum
More on these delightful and near-ubiquitous debating tactics at
By the way, I believe that ‘Valse’ was written while the Germans were occupying France during the early part of WW2. Poulenc couldn’t be too overt with it, otherwise he would have probably been taken away and shot.
Instead he wrote this impudent piano piece, to show the resistance of the French.
Apologies for getting a bit off-track here, but it does sort of relate to Karen’s original post.