A Room With A View - Forster E.M..pdf - Cove Systems

Chapter III: Music, Violets, and the Letter "S"
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life
rather chaotic, entered a more solid world
when she opened the piano. She was then no
longer either deferential or patronizing; no
longer either a rebel or a slave. The kingdom
of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will
accept those whom breeding and intellect and
culture have alike rejected. The commonplace
person begins to play, and shoots into the
empyrean without effort, whilst we look up,
marvelling how he has escaped us, and
thinking how we could worship him and love
him, would he but translate his visions into
human words, and his experiences into human
actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does
not, or does so very seldom. Lucy had done so
never.
She was no dazzling executante; her runs
were not at all like strings of pearls, and she
struck no more right notes than was suitable
for one of her age and situation. Nor was she