Posted by circusboy on April 28, 2001 at 11:54:10:
Among personal effects left by the reclusive, little-known elder brother of Sigmund
Freud--Hieronymus Guglielmo Freud--was the following memorandum:
My brother suffered a terrible frustration in his early youth. He
harbored a burning desire to play the tuba. But his diminutive
stature caused the band director to force him to learn the piccolo
instead. It is my opinion that this had a marked effect on him in
later life.