Crab: I have never seen that illustration before. Why don't you pass it
'round?
(The Tortoise passes the book around. Each of the foursome looks at it in a
characteristic way---this one from afar, that one from close up, everyone
tipping his head this way and that in puzzlement. Finally it has made the
rounds, and returns to the Tortoise, who peers at it rather intently.)Achilles: Well, I guess the prelude isjust about over. I wonder if, as I listen
to this fugue, I will gain any more insight into the question, "What is
the right way to listen to a fugue: as a whole, or as the sum of its parts?"
TTortoise: Listen carefully, and you will!
(The prelude ends. There is a moment of silence; and .. .)
[ATTACCA]
(^284) Prelude ...