Toccata arrangement of the J.S. Bach Toccata, BWV 565, on their album Sky 2, featuring keyboardist Francis Monkman. Robert Browning used the motif or concept of a toccata by Baldassare Galuppi to evoke thoughts of human transience in his poem "A Toccata of Galuppi's" (although Galuppi did not actually write any piece with the name 'Toccata'). Toccata Toccata (from Italian "toccare", literally, "to touch") is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the
Death and What Comes Next L-Space Web. Death and What Comes Next "Death and What Comes Next" is a "Discworld" short story by Terry Pratchett. It tells the story of a discussion between Death and a philosopher, in which the philosopher attempts to use the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics to argue death is not a certainty. The story was originally written in 2002 for the now-defunct online puzzle game "TimeHunt" and the text contains a hidden word puzzle, also devised by Pratchett, which provided a codeword for the game. Like "Theatre of Cruelty", another of his short stories, Pratchett allowed it to be put