As a therapist sometimes you have to step back from your clients' lives.

Getting of the topic of Solo and... -- Would you call a filk chorus a capella, or when it gets over ten voices does it turn back into an instrumental? (Thinking of Ed Stauff's instant chori, among others.)

Without his inspiring companionship her spirits would have sunk, her heart must have broken. He fetched and carried, cooked and toiled, for her comfort; he devised a dozen schemes to divert her.

Talking of backfire, frontfire or whatever, John Carroll can give it both barrels, and simultaneously.