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STEINDORFF: What is the meaning of this? A note, slipped under my door, summoning me to a clandestine--
SCHOTT: Yes, Herr Steindorff, I was hoping to have a word.
STEINDORFF: (Thoughtfully.) “Cantankerous.”
SCHOTT: I was hoping to have a word with you.
[... … …]
End:
SCHOTT: So be it. I will release the bird tonight.
STEINDORFF: I was wrong.
SCHOTT: What about?
STEINDORFF: Cantankerous is not strong enough. Not at all.
Itamar Moses, Bach at Leipzig, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. pp.37-42.
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