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Georg Kaufmann and Johann Steindorff have just arrived at Leipzig to
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KAUFMANN: Truly, Johann, you must reconsider.
STEINDORFF: I’m sorry, Georg, I cannot.
KAUFMANN: Our presence here together is surely an opportunity! On your soil, and on ours, negotiations have failed. Where better to make one last attempt than on the neutral ground of Leipzig?
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KAUFMANN: You simply parrot your father’s rhetoric, Martin. And he longs for a time that may never return.
STEINDORFF: Is that so?
KAUFMANN: Yes. The very beginning of religion. When all of us were simply Lutheran.
STEINDORFF: (Beat.) I’m going inside.
Itamar Moses, Bach at Leipzig, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. pp.25-27.
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