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{{a|otto|{{image|Der Teufel|png|“''Der Teufel mag im Detail stecken, aber Gott steckt in den Lücken''”}}}}[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]] (the “[[The Swiss Milquetoast|Swiss Milquetoast]]”) is the legendary, possibly apocryphal, unfinished last play of [[Otto Büchstein]], composed on his deathbed in an opium den in [[Mandalay]], delirious with malaria.<ref>Other reports have it as [[dengue fever]].</ref> Critics have been unable to agree whether {{buchstein}} intended it as comedy, history or tragedy, but are more or less unanimous that he failed to manage any of the three. “A drudgedy” was [[Winthrop Grumman]]’s terse assessment.

===Dramatis Personae===
*[[Gräfin Schümli Pflümli]]
*[[Jeremiah Nuncle]]
*[[Triago]]
*[[Herculio]]
===Devil quote===
Mainly famous for a misquote in [[Gräfin Schümli Pflümli]]’s final aria, ''Der Teufel mag im Detail stecken, aber Gott steckt in den Lücken'' (''The Devil may be in the detail, but God is in the gaps''),  often misquoted as “[[the devil is not in the detail. The devil is the detail]]”. 

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===[[Otto’s razor]]===
''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]'' is also famous for its articulation of “[[Otto’s razor]]”:
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===[[Conference call]]s===
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===The eternal joke of legal practice, personified in the [[NDA]]===
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===[[Special pleading]]===
At last, bumbling Triago’s circumlocutions are too much, and the queen can bear it no longer.
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===Annihilism===
{{buchstein}} is widely credited as having invented the word, and philosophy, of annihilism, though the word is not ever exactly used in the play:
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=== A condition more honour’d in the breach===
Herculio’s famous soliloquy on being asked to advise on a shareholder agreement.
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=== A lot of learning===
Triago, on people who suffer from brains:
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===Triago’s last stand===
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*[[Otto’s razor]]
*[[Stupidity]]
*[[Org chart]]
*[[Newsletter]]
*{{Buchstein}}
*{{c2|Büchstein Operas|mythology}}
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