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Scene: in the car on the way back from the city. A late Romantic symphony is playing on the radio. It has to be either Bruckner or Mahler, I think. But it doesn't seem to be ending, so it has to be Mahler.

Sure enough, after about six potential endings, what I take to be the finale turns out to be just the lead in to the next movement. Mahler, Symphony No. 1, as it turned out...