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"I wasn't quite as convinced as she was on these points, but I saw the potential, and when she persuaded Pops to give iant-size television I was overjoyed

"She insisted on the scientific docus, would have skipped, and she took nificent film Immortal Beloved, in which Gary Oldman plays Beethoven to such perfection that every time atched it I cried Then there was Amadeus with Tom Hulce as Mozart and F Murray Abraham as Salieri, a masterpiece of a film that leftto Ree Sand, and Tonight We Sing, all about S Hurok, the great impresario, and there were dozens of other films by which she opened my world

"Of course she showed nited race and culture, and then The Tales of Hoffmann, which transformed my dreams Both of these movies caused real physical pain in me, so vibrant, so lofty, so exalted was their world Ah, it hurts es in my head from them It hurts They were like spells, those two movies

"Picture ht except the giant television, and thoseour senses And Goblin, Goblin staring at the screen, stultified by the patterns he le to understand ere so stricken and so quiet

"When I cried in pain, Lynelle said the kindest thing to me:

" 'Don't you understand, Quinn?' she said 'You live in a gorgeous house and you're eccentric and gifted like the people in these fil you to , Quinn Don't make your world small ¡¯

"In fact, Aunt Queen had never invited me to meet her in Europe, or, to put it more to the point, I had not known that Aunt Queen had invited me! No doubt Pops and Sweetheart knew But I didn't confess this

" 'You have to keep on teaching me, Lynelle,' I answered 'Make me into somebody who can travel with Aunt Queen ¡¯

" 'I'll do it, Quinn,' she said 'It will be easy ¡¯

"She al ray and theories of evolution and dizzying lectures on black holes in space

"She taught me to play some sih the entire history ofme until I could identify a period and a style and, even in Mozart's case, a composer

"I was in heaven with Lynelle

"She taught lish words She taught o h so hard that I would fall down every time we tried

"Lynelle also brought the first co with the first printer, and though this was long before the days of the World Wide Web or the Internet, I learned to write on this co the first three fingers of each hand

"Goblin was enthralled by the computer