It's bad enough that Distension & Jake & Cour are gone ...

[David]

Originally Posted by amber

nuh uh! did you make that up, or did he really?

To quote the late great Anna Russell: I'm not making this up, you know!

It's all there in the biographical record (Solomon, Kerman, Thayer, etc.).

In other social situations with his annoying youngest brother, who had been bragging about having bought a house in the Rhineland or in Vienna or somewhere & like a magpie was introducing himself everywhere as a "land-owner," Beethoven finally started introducing himself in his brother's company as a "brain-owner."