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Lover's deaths

posted 17 years ago by luhlin
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If I'm not mistaken I think that the music Pebble had bought at the music store was Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, in particular, the piece that was playing on the record player at the time Pebble was killed was the Lovesong and Overture. If true that would have fit well with the motive for the murder, as Wagner's star-crossed lovers kill each other.

[–] fiat0903 16 years ago

Not quite as you tell it. In very short form: In Act II of the opera, Tristan is wounded in a fight with Melot. In Act III, Tristan dies of the wounds. Isolde arrives and dies of grief.

The music is said to simulate an orgasm.