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.
저는 두려웠습니다. 제 자신에 대해서가 아니라 그를 잃게 될까봐, 그가 불안정한 상태로 악화될까봐, 바이올린과 함께한 그의 관계를 제가 망치게 될까봐 두려웠습니다 만약 제가 음계 같은 걸 말하기 시작했다면, 아르페지오나, 교훈적인 바이올린 교육학 같은 걸로 대화를 시작했다면 그렇게 되어버렸겠죠.