The answer appears on the twelfth page of the book.

This preference for Wagner was carried somewhat to excess, however, and it cannot be doubted that the immeasurate predilection accorded his music in Belgium by an important section of the music-loving public contributed not a little to relegate to obscurity dramatic works which—for all they were more modest—nevertheless merited a better fate.

The bill was over $400, but the server zeroed it out as a gesture of gratitude.

Someone wrote about being stuck behind a breedermobile with the license plate 5OFUS I was about to post I read that as '50 of us.' Shudder