Available on line 6 Dundes, Alan (1984) Life is like a Chicken Coop Ladder Studies of German National Character through Folklore. NABC 2002 North American Bengali Conference (Banga Sammelan) 2002. New York Harper Perennial. It has to do with honesty, patience, and sharing, just for starters, which is why I can think of no company more aptly named than Aloha Tofu. Freemasonry is not alluded to except through excerpts from the opera, nor is there any analysis of the symbolic shift from heresy to the deepest ritual of the Catholic Church - the Requiem Mass. The women are intelligently portrayed.