And I was afraid, not for myself, but I was afraid that I was going to lose him, that he was going to sink into one of his states, and that I would ruin his relationship with the violin if I started talking about scales and arpeggios and other exciting forms of didactic violin pedagogy.
I bio sam uplašen, ne za sebe, već sam bio uplašen da ću ga izgubiti, da će potonuti u jedno od svojih stanja, te da ću ja upropastiti njegovu vezu s violinom ako krenem govoriti o ljestvicama, arpeggima i drugim zanimljivim oblicima didaktičke pedagogije violine.