"Before I was born, before my father was born, and before his father, and before his father's father…. It has always been."
"How strange! No one has ever told me about it."
He thought for a moment.
"Uncle, do you know any other?"
"Yes."
"Sing another, please."
"Why should I sing another? One is enough. One sings when one wants to sing, when one has to sing. One must not sing for the fun of it."
"But what about when one makes music?"
"That is not music."
The boy was lost in thought. He did not quite understand. But he asked for no explanation. It was true, it was not music, not like all the rest. He went on: