So tc er-stockinged legs and ed doood for a moment listening to tudio. A soft procession of piano cuning of a violin. ter Bilderbac to tural tones:

    quot;t you, Bienc;

    As stens s co tions of ticed t morning. quot;Yes,quot; s;Its me;quot;

    quot;I,quot; ted. quot;Just a moment.quot;

    Ser Lafkoz talking --  in a silky, unintelligible  like a o Mister Bilderbaclessness scattered tention. Sry book and Le Voyage de Monsieur Perricting table. S doo take cendons t stretcip capped ape. t s o torment  fehs.

    Noiselessly s to  used to be -- olid sound of Mister Bilderbacsteps across tudio and t slid open.

    For a moment s during most of teen years of  t jutted from beurbed only by ted, blank plucking of a violin string. Mister Bilderbaceac, t and tes of eetemples to be observed across the room.

    quot;Arent you a little early?quot;  telpiece t ed to five minutes of t;Josefs in tle sonatino by someone ;

    quot;Good,quot; srying to smile. quot;Ill listen.quot; So a blur of piano keys. S tired -- felt t if   tremble.

    ood uncertain, eet, s;; ;t;

    quot;Ill  till after; s;t;

    quot;After you finis; o crumble at the corners.

    tudio and Mister Lafkoz pus tood beside him.

    quot;Frances?quot; ;And ;

    it meaning to, Mister Lafkoz al t. today racted. Sco t purpose, ipped boe  slits today and t flowed down from hem.

    quot;I gat no; smiled Mister Lafkoz, alt yet ansion.

    S Mister Bilderbacurned ae afternoon sun came tudio and sed yelloy living room. Beeac long piano, t of Brahms.

    quot;No,quot; so Mister Lafkoz, quot;Im doing terribly.quot;  t;I dont knoter,quot; s Mister Bilderbacooped muscular back t stood tense and listening.

    Mister Lafkoz smiled. quot;times, I suppose, w;

    A ;Dont you tter get on ; asked Mister Bilderbach.

    quot;Immediately,quot; said Mister Lafkoz, giving tarting toop of t rument quot;Youve seen ture of ;

    igc; picture?quot;

    quot;One of able. Inside top cover.quot;

    tina began. Discordant yet somey but  style of its own. S.

    t-rings for a pizzicato. itrapped neatly beneater and rolled collar. It ure. Alt oograp ring. o turn around toure-taking apparatus. omac poke out no  chs.

    alented young violinist, snapped er Israelsky, ed to play to h --

    t morning, after siced from six until eig do table . Sed breakfast; it gave er four ce bars y cents lunctle morsels from t under cover of opping dead  t a fried egg on e and s if it burst -- so t te -- s able and closed her eyes.

    tudio seemed to be urging violently and clumsily for somet  to be er a moment s dreure -- and il so tudio -- t tations on tfully dra all t here.

    S forget ter Bilderbacared at  ago. ill tco tions of tired, s often came to  before so sleep on ts  buzzed and carried  into their own whirligig space.

    A underkind -- a underkind -- a underkind. t rolling in t o a murmur. Along  in distortion, diminiso pale blobs -- Mister Bilderbacer Lafkoz. Around and around in a circle revolving to ttural underkind. Mister Bilderbachers around him.

    Pes sicing falling over eacairs. Bacimed grotesquely to tired body and the buzzing circle.

    Sometimes -- ayed out from  so confused. ttle memories ;Age of Innocencequot; picture er t concert was over.

    A underkind -- a underkind. t er Bilderbac to ed the word.

    Not t o ;Bienc; (S  except ;Bienc; ;I kno must be terrible. Carrying around all time a  t;

    Mister Bilderbacc. ry and  imes s been born and broug Cincinnati. er Bilderbac is Dutc understand you?

    t day so tudio. After swilighe piano.

    quot;No;  first day. quot;It -- playing music -- is more to a second -- t means not;

    apped  and ubby ;o understand t.quot; ed a cigarette and gently ble exion above ;And art noions and ttle Sc; ime to jerk t to t;I en carefully no;

    S t tired.  raying inside ime. Sed to reac and touc pointed out ted to feel trong hairy back of his hand.

    Suesday after scurday afternoons. Often sayed,  and took treetcar  morning. Mrs. Bilderbac dumb  and sloc boto spend all ime in tairs, reading magazines or just looking  not sing anymore (s en to a pupil s it , very gut.

    een it came to  t seemed strange. Once scriding in from tudio, tense  some pupil irring til  and rested on urned -- stood placid --   moving. And to a quiet inexpressiveness, and urned to tudio.

    After sarted er Bilderbac ime to see anyt er Lafkozs pupil and o Mister Bilderbacen to teacen t over coget sonatas or Bloch.

    A underkind -- a underkind.

    hen.

    o go to scer Lafkozs broto teacry and European ory and Frencernoon. een ec in Cincinnati -- everyone said so. But playing t be easier t must be.

    o smell of corduroy pants and ten and rosin. ime, too, y around ts peeped out dingily from ter. Sc ts tle blobs of fles-cut nails and t s.

    In t only in a blur. S kno er. true, t er tood togetage o  made a difference ter of ta togethe Bloch.