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Alas, this Italy has too long swept Heroic ashes up for hour-glass sand; Of her own past, impassioned nympholept!

In Dostoievsky's books, madmen, idiots, drunkards, consumptives, degenerates, visionaries, reactionaries, anarchists, nympholepts, criminals and saints jostle one another in a sort of "Danse Macabre," but not one of them but has his moment of ecstasy.

It has no aim of imitating springtime noises, but seeks to stimulate by suggestion the hearer's creative imagination, and provoke by a musical telepathy the emotions that swayed the nympholept composer.

Thanks to it—all thanks to it—I did not become a nympholept.

We are all nympholepts in running after our ideals—and none more than yourself, indeed!