'Aw, c'mon, have a heart!'

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Like a lot of other folks, when I don't have anything immediately pressing that calls for my attention (like an Irish setter whimpering to go out and relieve himself), I sometimes sit down at our computer, in my study, and fool around with the Internet. That's how I came across an article recently that intrigued me: "Poland says no to DNA testing of Chopin's heart." Since I've always been an ardent fan of Frederick Chopin's piano music, I read on, to discover that "scientists" (names and nationality not revealed, of course) desperately want to dig up his body, to determine, by way of DNA testing, what killed him at the tender age of 39. One of the problems, however, seems to be that, while his body is buried in France, his heart -- as per his own request -- was sent to Warsaw, Poland, the place of his birth.

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