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{{a| | {{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. | ||
===Devil quote=== | ===Devil quote=== | ||
Mainly famous for a misquote in Gräfin Schümli | 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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{{dsh god in the gaps quote}} | |||
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===[[Otto’s razor]]=== | ===[[Otto’s razor]]=== | ||
''Die Schweizer Heulsuse'' is also famous for its articulation of “[[Otto’s razor]]”: | ''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]'' is also famous for its articulation of “[[Otto’s razor]]”: | ||
{{Dsh razor quote}} | {{Dsh razor quote}} | ||
===[[Conference call]]s=== | ===[[Conference call]]s=== | ||
{{quote| | {{quote| | ||
{{Dsh conference calls}} | {{Dsh conference calls}}}} | ||
===The eternal joke of legal practice, personified in the [[NDA]]=== | ===The eternal joke of legal practice, personified in the [[NDA]]=== | ||
{{Dsh NDA}} | {{Dsh NDA}} | ||
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At last, bumbling Triago’s circumlocutions are too much, and the queen can bear it no longer. | At last, bumbling Triago’s circumlocutions are too much, and the queen can bear it no longer. | ||
{{Dsh special pleading quote}} | {{Dsh special pleading quote}} | ||
===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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{{Dsh annihilism}}}} | |||
=== 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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{{dsh a condition more honoured}}}} | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Otto’s razor]] | *[[Otto’s razor]] | ||
*[[Stupidity]] | *[[Stupidity]] | ||
*[[Org chart]] | *[[Org chart]] | ||
*[[Newsletter]] | |||
*{{Buchstein}} | *{{Buchstein}} | ||
*{{c2|Büchstein Operas|mythology}} | |||
{{ref}} | {{ref}} |