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.
Un man bija bail, nevis par sevi, bet par to, ka es viņu pazaudēšu, ka viņš ieslīgs kādā no saviem stāvokļiem, un ka es sabojāšu viņa attiecības ar vijoli, ja sākšu runāt par gammām, arpēdžio un citām vijoles pedagoģijas aizraujošām formām.