Wagner ring theme, Morricone's "Ecstasy of Gold"...

uhhh.

Something else which Clemens did not say applies to this resurrected thread:

It ain't over till the fat lady sings.

It read like you meant that Clemens quoted Bill Nye, not possible without a time machine

Wrongo, geology breath . . . from the Wikipedia entry:

"Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (August 25, 1850 – February 22, 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang."

So it wasn't Bill Nye the science guy.
Ha, gimme a bath an call me whitey

Sorry I never really noticed this comment originally. What I was claiming is that Morricone appears to have copied the idea behind the music, not the music itself. Again, that the music appears to run in a kind of a circle, like a ring, and to represent greed.

J. S. Bach explored the idea of recursion in his The Musical Offering - Canon per tonos



Canon per tonos

As did Johann Strauss, Jr. in his "Perpetuum Mobile"


"und so weiter und so fort"