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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: the brain is over-wrought; when the walls of the room are transparent;
when the garret has no roof, and the soul soars in the empyrean of
spirits.
Marianna, with some little difficulty, removed the covers from an
instrument as large as a grand piano, but with an upper case added.
This strange-looking instrument, besides this second body and its
keyboard, supported the openings or bells of various wind instruments
and the closed funnels of a few organ pipes.
"Will you play me the prayer you say is so fine at the end of your
opera?" said the Count.
To the great surprise of both Marianna and the Count, Gambara began
Gambara | 
