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“That must make life difficult for you at times”, Jane observed, not bothering to mitigate her sarcasm. “Sometimes it does. I lack what is called “appreciation”. On the other hand there also exists a more general lack of appreciation for human hunger and misery, from which you ‘serious’ artists are not exempt. I haven’t met many classical musicians who examine the relationship of their craft to a larger historical context.” “Mr. Rodriguez, in a moment, I suppose”, Andrew countered, with growing impatience “ you’ll be informing us that we, being professional musicians, don’t know anything about music!” Antonio laughed: “How admirably you’ve anticipated my arguments! The modern institutions of classical music are hopelessly decadent!” It would have been difficult for his 3 listeners to organize a concentrated rebuttal to his assertions. Dumbfounded shock was the most they could come up with, and even that was more for form’s sake. One of the problems was that, being intelligent and
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