Humans have been carrying on about Johann Sebastian Bach for nearly three hundred years.

The counterpoint. The fugues. The cantatas. The organ music. Entire generations of musicians have studied him, performed him, analyzed him, and occasionally spoken his name with the hushed reverence normally reserved for cats.

There is no question Bach accomplished a great deal. For a biped.

Johann would have been a lousy cat. Unfortunately, he was born human, and some limitations cannot be overcome.

Bach understood counterpoint. Cats understand counters. Close enough.

Twenty children? That’s a good case for neutering.

Bach mastered the organ. A cat would have simply slept on it.

He could keep four voices moving independently through a fugue. A cat can do the same thing with a mouse and three pieces of furniture.

Bach wrote more than a thousand surviving works. Apparently nobody told him about naps.

He spent his life serving churches and aristocrats. A cat would have corrected that arrangement immediately.

Humanity got Bach. Cats dodged a bullet.

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Bach has had three hundred years of good press. He’ll survive.

Otis is grateful you stayed through his rant.

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