4788. The Anglican Church near the
Via Del Corso has a tradition of presenting musical concerts, and so I went to
the church and the vicar there was helpful enough to open his record register
and we found that there was a concert of Corelli concertos in the last week of
October, in the year 1996.
4789. I felt certain that, even
though I had discovered the sketchbook diary only recently, its important
entries were all dated in the late 90's. I soon began to feel that I was
piecing together what was the end of a grand love affair at the end of a grand
century.
4790. The diary entry about the
concert was referred to as "their last day in Rome." Pardon me for
telling my story backwards, but in the diary was a long entry consisting of
descriptions of an art exhibit going on in Rome at the time. These descriptions
deserve an examination.
4791. As a rule, when one reads a
writer's descriptions of art exhibits, one is searching for aesthetic insights
into the art, but in this case, I would like to point out, that it was the
state of mind of the writer that I found so interesting, and as for the art, it
was apparently, not of much interest to the unknown writer.
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