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...reformism. "With a little patience," he points out, "they could have had the same thing at less cost." Says Scherbaum, gently: "You oughtn't to take this business about history so tragically. Spring has no meaning, either...
Morality and metaphysics are marshaled. "Public burnings are no deterrent," Starusch thinks, "they only satisfy base instincts. (I'll tell Scherbaum that.)" To show the absurdity and ineffectuality of any action, Starusch ponders assigning a paper on "What are acts?" Democracy, that most inefficient if most protective form of government, is also invoked. Scherbaum is not impressed. "Freedom of choice and second helpings," he says, summing up the café ladies, "that's what they mean by democracy...
Growing desperate, Starusch even offers to burn another dog with Scherbaum. He hopes to confuse the issue and thinks that, at the very least, he will be able to protect the boy from the angry crowd. Scherbaum refuses sadly. "You're over thirty," he observes. "All you care about is limiting the damage." "Watch yourself, Flip," advises Scherbaum's politicized girl friend Vero, who wants to see her lions eat her Christians, or vice versa. "Mao warns us against the motley intellectuals...
...crucial third party in the tug of war over Scherbaum's soul, however, is an unnamed man in tennis shoes: Starusch's dentist. Starusch has an overshot underjaw. Pain and multiple appointments are involved. Along with other local anaesthetics, the dentist maintains a diversionary TV set on his wall. As a modern opiate it is not far behind Novocain and the ultra-high-speed drill...
...ADOLF SCHERBAUM (Deutsche Grammophon) is the world's foremost master of the baroque trumpet, an instrument without valves (which were not added until the 19th century). On this record he presents music by Vivaldi, Torelli, Telemann, Graupner and Fasch. Clearly conversant with the horn's volatile upper register, Scherbaum sends silver runs and trills echoing through imagined medieval castles or floating above mirrored lakes at dawn...