Note return — Chapter VI · A FOUR-HOUR ERRAND
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“Blasen ist nicht flöten, ihr müsst die Finger bewegen—to quote Goethe figuratively.… Your explanation, Hani, is a bit too poetic.” He indicated a point near the moulding at the edge of the cabinet. “I doubt if even your simoon—or, as you may prefer to call it, samûm[14]—could have made that scratch at the edge of the statue’s base, what? … Or, it may be, you set down the statue with undue violence.”