XIX. "for I've given this its strength, and it has become my only strength"
Her lips on his – what indescribable ecstasy! What wordless euphoria explainable through music alone!
During the most deep and silent nights he had prayed for this, and doubted whether the God in whom he scarce believes could even hear him at all in his makeshift Hell. And now as his wish manifests before him, as bittersweet tears spring at last to his eyes, he realizes that he does not know what to do.
