And I was afraid, not for myself, but I was afraid that I was going to lose him, that he was going to sink into one of his states, and that I would ruin his relationship with the violin if I started talking about scales and arpeggios and other exciting forms of didactic violin pedagogy.
Já jsem se bál, ne o sebe, ale bál jsem se, že ho ztratím, že se propadne do jednoho ze svých stavů, že bych zničil jeho vztah k houslím, kdybych začal mluvit o stupnicích a arpeggiích a jiných strhujících metodách houslové didaktiky.