Significant Moments: Telling Two Stories Simultaneously

Be it for good or ill, . . .
Richard Wagner, Gotterdammerung.
. . . I will assert that . . .
Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus.
. . . life, powers, passions, all I see in other beings, . . .
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred.
. . . must simply serve . . .
Bruce J. Evensen, Review of John Taylor, Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War.
. . . as inspiration . . .
Joseph Conrad, Chance.
. . . for my work.
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery.
Will assert as well that . . .
Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus.
. . . in me . . .
Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities.
. . . as in him, . . .
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
. . . the accent lies on the conjunction of poet and musician, as a pure musician I would not be of much significance.
Cosima Wagner’s Diaries (Monday, August 16, 1869).
Symbols, especially words as symbols, fascinated . . .
Robert W. Gutman, Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind and His Music.
. . . Wagner the librettist . . .
Barry Millington, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
. . . and the power of his poetry often rests upon allusion latent in the phrase; much is covert and much implied. Often he sets up a stage situation whose externals mime one tale while his sinewy and punning diction unfolds another.
Robert W. Gutman, Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind and His Music.
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Heifetz was a violin virtuoso born in Vilna, Lithuania (February 2 1901 – December 10, 1987). Yes, he was a Litvak.

http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2006/11/growing-up-jewish-in-philadelphia.html

Heifetz is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. In 1917, he was elected as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music, by the fraternity's Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. As he was aged 16 at the time, he was perhaps the youngest person ever elected to membership in the organization. Heifetz remained in the country and became an American citizen in 1925. When he told admirer Groucho Marx he had been earning his living as a musician since the age of seven, Groucho answered, "And I suppose before that you were just a bum."

Yes, Heifetz was the cream of the crop. If Heifetz had been a law school graduate he would have been one of those people who goes on to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice. That's how good he was. I've always wondered: Did Heifetz know Totenberg?