TENNIS RACKET STRINGS: regretted that there were no strangers present to see me play. Soon, however, tennis racket strings began to realise that Liszt and Kalkbrenner were beyond me, and that I should never overtake Katenka. Accordingly, imagining that classical music was easier (as well as, partly, for the sake of originality), I suddenly came to the conclusion that I loved abstruse German music. I began to go into raptures whenever Lubotshka played the "Sonate Pathetique," and although (if the truth be told) that work had for years driven me to the verge of distraction, tennis racket strings set myself to play Beethoven, and to talk ofTENNIS RACKET STRINGS: him as "Beethoven." Yet through all this chopping and changing and pretence (as I now conceive) there may have run in me a certain vein of talent, tennis racket strings music sometimes affected me even to tears, and things which particularly pleased me I tennis racket strings strum on the piano afterwards (in a certain fashion) without the score; so that, had any one taught me at that period to look upon music as an end, a grace, in itself, and not merely as a means for pleasing womenfolk with the velocity and pseudo-sentiment of one's playing, I might possibly have become a passable
TENNIS RACKET STRINGS: musician. The reading of French novels (of which Woloda tennis racket strings brought a large store with him from Moscow) was another of my amusements that summer. At that period Monte Cristo and Taine's works had just appeared, tennis racket strings I also revelled in stories by Sue, Dumas, and Paul de Kock. Even their most unnatural personages and events were for me as real as actuality, and not only was I incapable of suspecting an author of lying, but, in my eyes, there existed no author at all. That is to say, the various personages and events of a book paraded themselves before
TENNIS RACKET STRINGS: me on the printed page as personages and events that were alive and real; and although I had never in my life met such characters as I there read about, I never for a second doubted that I should one day do so. I discovered in myself all the passions described in every novel, as well as a likeness to all the characters--heroes and villains tennis racket strings figured therein, tennis racket strings as a suspicious man finds in himself the signs of every possible disease when reading a book on medicine. I took pleasure both in the cunning designs, the glowing sentiments, the
TENNIS RACKET STRINGS: tumultuous events, and the character- drawing of these works. A good man was of the goodness, a bad man of the badness, possible only to the imagination of early youth. tennis racket strings I found great pleasure in the fact that it was all written in French, and that I could lay to heart the fine words which the fine heroes spoke, and recall them for use some day when engaged in some noble deed. What tennis racket strings of French phrases I culled from those books for Kolpikoff's benefit if I should ever meet him again, as well as for HERS, when at
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