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Updated: May 26, 2025
And so the picture becomes more wonderful to us than it really is, and reveals to us a secret of which, in truth, it knows nothing, and the music of the mystical prose is as sweet in our ears as was that flute-player's music that lent to the lips of La Gioconda those subtle and poisonous curves.
Whoever kept sober at the festival of Dionysus, whose incarnate second self he regarded himself, incurred his deepest displeasure. "The flute-player's wife, Queen Tryphoena, and her oldest daughter she bore your name, Berenike ruined his life. Compared with them, the King was worthy and virtuous. What had become of the heroes and the high-minded princes of the house of Ptolemy?
When the Khan saw this, he ordered that one of the flute-player's eyes be put out, which being done, the Khan spoke as follows: "Oh flute-player, I saw that when playing upon your flute you closed both of your eyes.
What would have prevented him as he did later from taking the object of his love to Rome, had it been possible at that time? But this was not the case. The Alexandrians provided for that. "He had recognized the flute-player's will, nay, had granted more to the royal house than could have been given to the former.
She turned her eyes from the old flute-player's to those of the young man, and smiled at him. "Anna!" he exclaimed, and started towards her from his mother's side. "Stop!" said Kreutzer and held up his hand. Then, turning again to Anna: "You would not even give him up for me?" "You would not ask that of me, father," she said confidently, "for it is my happiness."
What would have prevented him as he did later from taking the object of his love to Rome, had it been possible at that time? But this was not the case. The Alexandrians provided for that. "He had recognized the flute-player's will, nay, had granted more to the royal house than could have been given to the former.
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