Dear Marion,

Just a note of apology for my inadvertent failure to 
acknowledge your perceptive and sensitive discussion about
music. On this subject, we are in agreement; I know nothing
to add, nothing to subtract. My only problem is with the
dancing, something I never learned to do. My comments are
at the end of Chapter 11 of Die Freunde, but as I glanced
at this text just now to refresh my memory, I saw that it
was awkward and unfinished, its publication in this state
analogous to appearing at a party in ones underwear.
Once more: Mea Culpa. So far as dancing is concerned,
I'm now too old, and much too crippled to learn. My
right hip would never come along.

Jochen