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You know, Alfred,
art is the highest source of education...
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and the artist has to be exemplary.
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He must be a model
of balance and strength.
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- He cannot be ambiguous.
- But art is ambiguous.
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And music,
the most ambiguous of all the arts.
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It is ambiguity made a science.
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Wait!
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Listen to this chord...
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or this one.
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You can interpret them
in any way you like.
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You have before you an entire series
of mathematical combinations...
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unforeseen and inexhaustible.
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A paradise of double meanings
in which you, more than anyone else...
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romp and roll about like a calf in clover.
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Don't you hear it?
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- Do you recognize it?
- Stop!
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It's yours! It's all your music!
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Good morning, Professor von Aschenbach.
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Good morning.
:38:39
How's the weather, sir?
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The scirocco...
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How long do you think it will last?
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Well, you must understand, signore,
that the scirocco...
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blows for three days
if it starts on Tuesday.
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Nine days if it starts on Friday.
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But if it hasn't blown itself out
by the tenth day, then...