Sachets des ciseaux insatiables (="bags of insatiable scissors"), is an septetarrangement of three earlier pieces of mine, 1. "Sachets de la famille" (from "Im Januar am Nil" for chamber ensemble, 1984), entirely in the pentatonic mode with a Sibelius quote leading to a pistol shot and further quotes played on the clarinet from Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky, 2. "Les Ciseaux de Tom Johnson" (1998), written to celebrate that composer's 60th birthday as a geometric treatment of his written name, and 3. "Elle l'a vue, elle l'a bue, la pomme insatiable" (from "Four Identical Pieces" for piano, 1995), with tango-like 3:4 rhythms and quotes from Bizet and the Beatles.