MELOMANIACS BY JAMES HUNEKER Come, let us inarch against the powers of heaven, And set black streamers in the firmament, To signify the slaughter of the Gods. Marlowe NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1902 Copyright, 190, by CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS A II rights reserved PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY, 1902 JOHN WILSON AMD SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE THE LORDS PRAYER IN B i A SON OF LISZT n A CHOPIN OF THE GUTTER 19 THE PIPER OF DREAMS 31 AN EMOTIONAL ACROBAT 63 ISOLDES MOTHER - 73 THE RIM OF FINER ISSUES 99 AN IBSEN GIRL 118 ...
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MELOMANIACS BY JAMES HUNEKER Come, let us inarch against the powers of heaven, And set black streamers in the firmament, To signify the slaughter of the Gods. Marlowe NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1902 Copyright, 190, by CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS A II rights reserved PUBLISHED, FEBRUARY, 1902 JOHN WILSON AMD SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE THE LORDS PRAYER IN B i A SON OF LISZT n A CHOPIN OF THE GUTTER 19 THE PIPER OF DREAMS 31 AN EMOTIONAL ACROBAT 63 ISOLDES MOTHER - 73 THE RIM OF FINER ISSUES 99 AN IBSEN GIRL 118 TANNHAUSERS CHOICE 141 THE RED-HEADED PIANO PLAYER 158 BRYNHILDS IMMOLATION 172 THE QUEST OF THE ELUSIVE 183 AN INVOLUNTARY INSURGENT 196 HUNDINGS WIFE 206 THE CORRIDOR OF TIME 224 AVATAR 240 THE WEGSTAFFES GIVE A MUSICALE 255 THE IRON VIRGIN 268 DUSK OF THE GODS 280 vii CONTENTS PAGE SIEGFRIEDS DEATH 294 INTERMEZZO 307 A SPINNER OF SILENCE 315 THE DISENCHANTED SYMPHONY 324 Music THE CONQUEROR 347 viii MELOMANIACS THE LORDS PRAYER IN B AT the close of the first day they brought Baruch into the great Hall of the Oblates, some time called the Hall of the Unexpected. The young man walked with eyes downcast. Aloft in the vast spaces the swinging domes of light made more reddish his curly beard, deepened the hollows on either side of his sweetly pointed nose, and accented the determined corners of his firmly modelled lips. He was dressed in a simple tunic and wore no Talith and as he slowly moved up the wide aisle the Grand In quisitor, visibly annoyed by the resemblance, said to his famulus, The heretic dares to imitate the Master. He crossed himself and shuddered. Mendoza abated not his reserve as he drew near the long table before the Throne. Like a quarry that is at lasthemmed in, the Jew was quickly surrounded by a half thousand black robed monks. The silence sick, profound, and awful was punctuated by the low, sullen tap ping of a drum. Its droning sound reminded the prisoner of life-blood dripping from some single pore the tone was B, and its insistent, muffled, T I MELOMANIACS funereal blow at rhythmic intervals would in time have worn away rock. Mendoza felt a prevision of his fate being a musician he knew of musics woes and warnings. And he lifted eyes for the first time since his arrest in a gloomy, star-lit street of Lisbon. He saw bleached, shaven faces in a half circle they seemed like skulls fastened on black dum mies so immobile their expression, so deadly staring their eyes. The brilliant and festal appearance of the scene oppressed him and his eyeballs ached. Symphonies of light were massed over the great high walls glistening and pendulous, they illuminated remote ceilings. There was color and taunting gaiety in the decoration the lofty panels contained pictures from the classic poets which seemed profane in so sacred an edifice, and just over the Throne gleamed the golden tubes of a mighty organ. Then Baruch Mendozas eyes, half blinded by the strange glory of the place to which he had been haled, encountered the joyful and ferocious gaze of the Grand Inquisitor. Again echoed dolefully the tap of the drum in the key of B, and the prisoner shuddered. A voice was heard Baruch Mendoza, thou art before the Throne, and one of the humblest of Gods creatures asks thee to renounce thy vile heresies. Baruch made no answer. The voice again modulated high, its menace sweetly hidden. THE LORDS PRAYER IN B Baruch Mendoza, dost thou renounce The drumcounted two taps. Baruch did not reply, For the third time the voice issued from the lips of the Grand Inquisitor, as he drew the hood over his face. Baruch Mendoza, dog of a Jew, dog of a heretic, believer in no creed, wilt thou recant the evil words of thy unspeakable book, pros trate thyself before the altar of the Only God, and ask His forgiveness Answer, Baruch Mendoza The man thus interrogated wondered why the Hall of the Oblates was adorned with laugh ing Bacchantes, but he responded not...
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