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Bitch has played me like a violin
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The wife played the violin badly
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plucked a violin string, marvelled again at the resonance
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the violin, while the others prepared themselves to play cello, viola and bass
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' He picked up the canvas sack lying under his chair and with infinite care withdrew from it a small, pear-shaped violin and bow trimmed with bells along its length
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9 in A for Violin and Piano
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And we would betray Rhodesia for a few crumbs from England and other African despots and even feel good about it! We would invade Angola with a totally unprepared Army! Black leaders played Prime Minister John Vorster like badly tuned violin
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I started to play the violin and one of the soldiers played the accordion, then Nechama began to sing
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“Officer,” the man said, “a number of years ago, a woman named Zosia, who claimed to be a family friend, came and took several items that were left, such as a violin, an oil painting and some picture albums
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I took the package with the photo album and the oil painting of my grandmother Pauline and left the violin for Staszek
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After dinner and after Uncle Staszek had serenaded us with his old violin that had just been returned to him, we parted from Eugenia and Staszek
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Sharon’s spirit rose out of her body and started to play a violin
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A lonely violin played somewhere out there in one of the houses
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But he could play the violin like a champ
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He was playing the violin, some song
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From somewhere in the building came the sound of music, a harp, a flute, the cheerful sound of a lute and a violin
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Khalil Gibran in his book The Prophet compared love to the same wine drunk from different glasses, two strings of the violin playing the same note
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The song “Panis Angelicus” (César Franck) had been played on the violin for my first marriage
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We children confuse it with the bridge of her violin
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Grandma took the violin down from the bookcase behind her and played it for us
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It’s only after singing that Navarathri concert with you on the violin, when Amma was ill and I replaced her, that chances started to come…”
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Highlighted in the second and third pages, there were names of them both as vocals and their violin and mridangam accompaniments
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Aunt Mala who had played violin for her dropped her off
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He had a violin case with one of those, I imagine
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During a lunch break of the ship’s dance orchestra she borrowed the fiddler’s violin and guitar, and with me at the keyboard we kept the party going until the musicians had eaten their sausages and drank their beer
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In England, Mohan gave up the idea of becoming an English gentleman, stopped lessons in French and violin; sold his violin and moved to a small room
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He gave up violin lessons, started cooking simple vegetarian meals, walking instead of taking a bus, and left London the day he passed his exams
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would tune a violin or piano string
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Once they stopped to watch a lone musician in a tuxedo playing Mozart on an electric violin that echoed among the skyscrapers
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In the noontime violin that day appeared
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I knew he will give me that look; Rob could have heard it but he still continues to play the violin
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The little one plays violin like it was a memory inside
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After she turned six, she became a member of the Union Baptist junior choir and then played a violin that her Aunt Mary gave her
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Basically it was a speaker attacked to a squat gun, but with noticeable large strings built into the center like some devious cross between a cannon and a violin
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He focused harder on hearing one of Beethoven’s soothing violin concertos
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Joseph, the father, played trumpet, violin and piano – those weren’t the only instruments around the house
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The Red Violin (1998)
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Music was his first love and the Stradivarius violin he was holding was worth as much to him as life; bringing him joy to play and hold
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He placed the violin lovingly in its case and took a swallow straight from the bottle before driving the short distance to the house in his Porsche
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Business cards, check-out receipts and a picture of, his dad?” He was studying a dated Kodak black and white snapshot of a John Delmage look-alike in dress suit and winged collar, cradling a violin to his chin
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One of our lads who knows, reckons the violin in the wagon is worth more than a few dollars, an heirloom in fact
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He was studying the violin
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Each dame had an oversized handbag on her right elbow and a violin case in her left hand, and sported a poker face that cut the air like a switchblade
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Without a word, all five released the catch on their violin cases, flipped out Tommy guns and opened fire
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greatest violin players in the world comes from that tradition of
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You will hear various kinds of sounds such as flute, violin, kettledrum, thunder-storm, conch, bells, the humming of a bee, etc
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A note on the violin, if sounded repeatedly in rhythm, will generate vibrations which will in time destroy a bridge
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Some of the more popular musical instruments are the piano and/or electric keyboard, guitar, violin, flute, recorder and drum set
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” He had been holding a hand behind his back and now he produced a small violin and bow
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’” Without waiting for permission, he tucked his violin under his chin and sang and played
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The evening lacked Syd as master of ceremonies, The Songbirds Trio was now a duet, and Stu Corrigan and his violin were absent
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I used to take her out to a place called Selenis, where they have some violin played at the table, any song you like
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One held a flute, another embraced a lute; one raised a violin, another placed a drum in his lap
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'It is a good violin
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When it came to the violin lessons she tried to force me to take, I ‘accidentally’ broke a dozen of the stupid instruments to test her resolve
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calming violin play as a golden pyramid of bon-bons emerged on
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more as the violin and cello returned
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The violin was the first to
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Claire pulled out her umbrella, and instead of returning to the Lyons mansion, she went to her violin lesson
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Her parents had signed her up for violin lessons since the time that she was two years old, yet Claire had never found any real interest in the four-stringed instrument and the way that vibrato could be used to make a fuller sound -nothing like that had ever interested her-
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When she walked inside the elegant studio, her heart broke when she saw a young boy banging his violin against the floor with a bored expression on his face, like he didn't even care
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"What the hell do you think that you're doing?" she screamed, snatching the antique violin out of the careless boy's hands, and quickly smoothing a cloth over the back side, ignoring the scratches and how the bridge had turned sideways
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Heads of social organizations, institutions, the concept of a Supreme head-being: God, the making of bread by cutting off the heads of grain, the head of a bed, the head of a burning cigar or cigarette: knocked of as ashes: getting ‘ahead’, the concept of progress as the most important thing in life, competition: getting ahead of your competition, the concept of competitive elimination: ‘heads will fall’, ‘if you are not up to snuff’, snuff: sneezing your head off by taking a pinch of snuff to clear your head, giving ‘head’ sexually, warheads, bombs, firearms, bullets, artillery: any weapon that shoots something: slingshots, arrows, spears, rocks, the heading of a page, a header in grammar, the heading on a page, the heading on a sentence, the heading on a paragraph, somersaults, head-over-heels, crowns, the crowns of Corinthian pillars, pillars do not have heads: all pillars are decapitated, all segments of pillars: all decapitated columns, the idea of decapitating pillars of the community, the idea of dethroning kings, the eating of fruit like grapes, apples, etc; all edible things like coconuts, papaya,, unpeeling the head of a banana and eating it, all vegetables in the shape of a head like onions, cabbage, lettuce, the picking of leaves, the picking of fruits, the picking of beans: all drug foods the picking of spices: creating every single drug we call food, ice cream cones, all ice cream in the shape of a decapitated head, all food portions in the shape of a head, all toppings on all food, decapitated flowers, the Rose Parade: hundreds of millions of decapitated heads of flowers, all fire with flames that are decapitated, all fireworks, the crushing of spices, the picking of decapitated heads like mushrooms, eating nuts, cracking their shell, eggs, corks and bungs used to seal barrels and bottles, the tops of bottles, the sealing and taking off the tops of bottles, jars; all tools that have a head, the head of a hammer, nails, the head of a nail, pounding the head of a nail, the cutting off of the heads of large trees before decapitating them, cutting off the heads of animals to kill them and eat them, all mathematics: the counting of heads, or I’s and adding them up, the using of tools to create decapitated segments, all sports, all balls used in sports, the hitting of all balls, ping-pong, badminton, bowling, bowling pins: the decapitation of bowling pins by a bowling ball, kingpins, kings, jewelry, stickpins with diamond heads on them, canes, walking sticks with metal heads, staffs, any artifact denoting being the head of something, scepters, globes, flyswatters, turbans, musical instruments that blare out sound: decapitating it; using holes in wood and brass instruments to decapitate the natural sound into a shorter wavelength, all fretted and unfretted musical instruments, pressing on a fret to make the note shorter, like a violin or guitar, drums, drumsticks, cymbals, the heads of shoelaces, the detached mentality called the ego: decapitated and disconnected from all the other needs and energy flows of a human being, the concept of life after death as a detached form of spirit, the structure of all hierarchy, all capitalist companies and corporate bodies being ruled and controlled by detached heads of business, the capitalization of letters at the head of a word or sentence or paragraph: especially in ancient sacred Christian texts: where the first capital letter is huge, the eating of fish by decapitating them first, the use of all drugs, narcotics wine, coffee, pills: to create a disconnection between the brain and the rest of the human being, the concept of anesthesia, using drugs to numb the brain or prevent it from feeling the body’s pain, all cultures that value stoicism, macho pigs who cannot love, the concept of the hero as a stone face refusing to face the truth, refusing to feel love, refusing to feel any emotion whatsoever, refusing to cry, the stone carvings of all the ancient Kings, the decapitated carvings of all Kings on coins, the insane idea of all kings ruling by only using their decapitated heads as decapitated coins to spread their authority, all stone busts, plaster busts, the stone faces of all heroes in modern media who refuse to feel human emotion, ping-pong, the computer game: pong, King Kong: the King cut off from State: King Kong falling off the Empire State building: all the video games that are based upon decapitated heads decapitating other heads, which are all based on the old arcade pinball machines that shot decapitated heads that bounced around scoring points hitting and scoring on as many stationary targets of decapitated heads as possible, the decapitation of hair… haircuts, shaving daily, cutting your nails, the idea of assassination as a political tool, the concept of character assassination used in all human societies to cut off people who are thought too uppity or stick out too much, and do not conform… the detached form of observation that only use instruments for the eye: microscopes, telescopes, star-gazing, stamp collecting, the collections of anything from bric-a-brac to gold coins, portraits, still pictures of decapitated heads, cameos, brooches, belt buckles, shoe buckles, still photographs of decapitated heads, talking heads, heads on celluloid talking, heads on screens, moving pictures of talking heads, the idea of a leader as a talking head, all pictures on money of decapitated heads, mouthpieces, microphones, the idea of one person speaking for another, speechwriters, lawyers, politicians, amplified music coming out of a loudspeaker, amplifiers of singing-talking heads, the idea of doing nothing but talking as being the only form of social activity allowed in polite societies, the heads of shoelaces, all knots, topknots, tying hair into knots, the idea of cutting up sounds into words, into letters, into decapitated abstract symbols of meaning separated from thee body of the meaning by segmentation, all segmented forms of tool-use, all tools that segment things into decapitated heads, all decapitated forms of awareness-thinking-feeling, all forms of specialization, all segmented ways of living-doing-seeing, decapitating the natural order of things into decapitated insane pieces: decapitating a family into age groups, decapitating a community into alienated isolated individuals, all mass butchery of living animals by cutting off their heads, morse code, ticker tape, all digitalization of signals into meaningless decapitated codes, the invention of the glass tube: the first decapitated head that could mechanically receive and send energy through nerves called wires, the invention of the transistor: the first sold decapitated head that could send and receive signals, the invention of microchips: tiny decapitated heads with their own tiny brain circuits that could perform more complicated functions than the first huge glass-blown giants called vacuum tubes: because there was nothing inside them, all glass blowing, blowing up molten glass with hot air and then decapitating it to make a glass vase or bottle, all containers from bottles, jars, gourds, ladles, to pitchers and teapots with decapitated lids, all containers, chests, holding treasure, wealth, valuables, all spices and decapitated herbs, all furniture made from decapitating trees, all houses made into decapitated heads where the people living inside them only use their heads and not their hearts or bodies, the steam engine: decapitating steam to explode out in puffs of decapitated destroyed power, all wheels, all round wheels used in machines, all watches, with dials pointing at the decapitated numbers of a disconnected circle, the decapitation of all circles into wedges, pie slices, the invention of the wedge, the invention of the axe as a metal decapitated head to stick on a wooden decapitated piece of branch, all idols, all icons, all figureheads, all abstract symbols representing the head, the pinnacle, the top, the apex, the height of anything, all hierarchical awareness and structures that deem the head as the most valuable, the best, the most noble, etc; Jack-in the Box, all boxes, everything that is put into a box or container, FedEx: the obsession of transporting boxes and parcels, the song; ‘Pop goes the Weasel’, all mass-produced goods that are boxed and shipped, the detachment of specialized labor and work, the creation of holes, digging, all mining, piston heads, engine heads, everything that is called the ‘head’ of something, the froth on the top of a glass of beer,: to be blown away, the use of all zeros and ones: as in Japanese Zeros decapitating American ships, zeros and ones being created and then decapitated inside computers, the use of all zeros and ones in mathematics, scalping, the taking of heads, the shrinking of heads: which the computer microchip is the latest evolution of, …
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I could hear every cello, every violin, every crescendo that Mozart had written throughout the three-hour performance
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An antimatter guitar or violin would sound the same as a matter one
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There were sounds of singing, of clarionet and violin, and the boom of a Turkish drum
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Ah, but where are you going if instead of brushing past the old man with the white beard, the silver medal, and the cheap violin, you let him go on with his story, which ends in an invitation to step somewhere, to his room, presumably, off Queen's Square, and there he shows you a collection of birds' eggs and a letter from the Prince of Wales's secretary, and this (skipping the intermediate stages) brings you one winter's day to the Essex coast, where the little boat makes off to the ship, and the ship sails and you behold on the skyline the Azores; and the flamingoes rise; and there you sit on the verge of the marsh drinking rum-punch, an outcast from civilization, for you have committed a crime, are infected with yellow fever as likely as not, and--fill in the sketch as you like
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She gave herself up to the lullaby of the melodies, and felt all her being vibrate as if the violin bows were drawn over her nerves
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2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5
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Abigail wasn’t sporty, but she played the violin, and Nathan and Bonnie were at every concert without fail, beaming and clapping, as if they’d been there all along, as if they’d driven her to those violin lessons in Petersham where you could never get a parking spot, as if they’d helped pay for all those lessons that Madeline couldn’t afford as a single mother with an ex-husband who didn’t contribute a single cent
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My violin unleashed a trio of enraged, tone-deaf banshees, and I couldn’t blow the flute well enough to make any more sound than with my lower lip on a soda bottle
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The overture to the second act began; and, at the first sound of the leader's bow across his violin, Franz observed the sleeper slowly arise and approach the Greek girl, who turned around to say a few words to him, and then, leaning forward again on the railing of her box, she became as absorbed as before in what was going on
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in the "Cremona Violin," she would die one day while singing
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“One with a violin and the other a viola, am I correct? Crossing all those busy streets
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“You would have been absolutely amazed,” she says more than once, and Werner studies his friend’s face to gauge whether or not he would have been amazed, and Franny returns to set out wine and more Rauchkäse and for an hour Werner forgets about Schulpforta, about Bastian and the black rubber hose, about the Jewess upstairs—the things these people have! A violin on a stand in the corner and sleek furniture made from chromium steel and a brass telescope and a sterling silver chess set behind glass and this magnificent cheese that tastes like smoke has been stirred into butter
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They could hear someone playing violin inside
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Joe knocked on a yellow Dutch door, and the violin fell silent
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He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right
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It was a very corny book--I realize that--but I couldn't get that violin stuff out of my mind anyway
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Caulfield and his Magic Violin, boy
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Since Harry had secured the job at the Golden Rule, she had finally had the leisure to pursue her violin career full-time, and now years of grimly determined practice back in the cabin in Idaho and the half-finished house in Sequim had finally begun to pay off
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His sister, Mary Helen, had sent it—nearly all her savings—saying she’d take his old violin in exchange
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Johnny knew full well she had no interest at all in the violin
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He ran out and ran in, smoked incessantly, played snatches on his violin, sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at irregular hours, and hardly answered the casual questions which I put to him
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Kira played them like a violin and could reduce even the toughest of men to blushing and giggling schoolchildren
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about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table
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Where he had once been lounging and indolent, he was now as alert as a prowling cat, with the tense alertness of one whose nerves are perpetually drawn as tight as the strings of a violin
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“What’s this?” I ask as the sweet, sweet sound of a hundred violin strings assails us
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Scarlett had sat on that sofa so often in the first years of the war, always with some handsome officer beside her, and listened to violin and bull fiddle, accordion and banjo,
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We sent to a nearby village to see if we could borrow a violin from a local music teacher
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But within those walls she’d remained an obedient child, saying her prayers, eating soup in the summertime, practicing her violin in the garage so as not to disturb her mother
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But what didn’t, in those days?) As Mother Mountain, she appeared weekly on the 10-watt student radio station, punctuating excerpts from Minima Moralia and philippics about the aerospace industry and modern kitchen appliances with renditions of Stockhausen on her detuned violin
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buried there, with his violin, in the graveyard of the little church, at the bottom of the slope where we used to play as children, beside the road where, when we were a little bigger, we said good-by for the last time