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I immediately famous him through his profile: it used to be Golch. The Golch. (Everyone understands who he's: his highbrow contri­ butions became a pleasant a part of our historical past. ) Dombrowska brought me: "H err Sebald, the previous proprietor of Marat’s bath. ” note had gotten overseas. "Aha,” acknowledged Golch, executing a gentle upward glissando at the final syllable of his exclamation, thereby implying that he could contemplate me a pretender for the elite of tradition bearers, even supposing i might nonetheless need to move any variety of assessments. I immediately seized the chance to invite him no matter if he had loved the exhibition of up to date portray on the Luxem­ bourg. observing up, as though looking a observe in house, Golch acknowledged: "Passe! ” (He hired the then universal British pronuncia­ tion of the observe. The phrases cliche and pastiche have been likewise under pressure within the British approach. i don't understand how they're suggested now, nor does it strike me as very important. in the end, the island of the marchesa used to be style-setting in such concerns. The island sank, taking alongside its guidance. "Passe,” he acknowledged, and that i agreed, and might have performed so— i need to confess! — even had he expressed the other opinion, for, in any case, it was once Golch i used to be talking with. The visitors now went to the buffet. right here, I ran into Signora Sgambati, the astrologer, who had created fairly a sensation your time in the past along with her concept that the celebrities re­ vealed not just person destinies but additionally complete currents in cultural background. real, the present envisioned by means of her had no longer but set in, yet, as her huge following maintained, little eddies have been forming right here and there, vortices which may be considered four THE finish OF A W O R L D as symptomatic cells. She used to be no run-of-the-mill individual, that Sgambati— you may inform simply by taking a look at her. Neverthe­ much less, below the conditions, i locate it incomprehensible that the constellation had did not tell her of the upcoming deaths of a few of the seminal individuals of the highbrow international, the very creators of her present. She used to be absorbed in a talk with Professor Kuntz-Sartori, the flesh presser and suggest of royalist principles, who were attempting for many years to introduce a monarchy into Switzerland, wherein, to make sure, he met with enormous resistance from the Helvetian Confederation. a superb brain! After engaging of refreshment within the type of champagne and scrumptious crustaceans, the visitors entered the Silver Room. For now got here the excessive element of the night, a truly precise functionality: the ideal of 2 flute sonatas through Antonio Giambattista Bloch, a modern and good friend of Rameau, came across by way of the musicologist Weldli, who used to be additionally current on the soiree, after all. The items have been performed through the flautist Berenger (yes certainly, a descendant) and followed through the marchesa herself, at the harpsichord at which Celestine Rameau had taught her son the basics of counter­ aspect (to confirm, he by no means competently understood them until his loss of life day), and which have been transported right here from Paris. The flute too had its historical past, yet i've got forgotten it.