I've had a tradesman in my house putting in a new bathroom for two weeks now.

[Burney]

Fúcking hell. 'Sheer, all-consuming cathedrals of sound'? Do me a fúcking favour.

If you can listen to the culmination of the first movement of the Eroica or the second movement of his seventh without feeling emotionally wrung out, you are leetle beet the dead inside, I'm afraid.

Or deaf. You might just be a bit deaf? Mind you, so was he.