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The clarinet in literature

Author: Dan Oberlin ★2017
Date: 2020-07-29 23:42

My wife and I occasionally read a Dickens novel together. This time it's Little Dorrit. One of the sad minor characters plays the clarinet for a living. An excerpt: "The clarionet had been lamenting most pathetically during his dialogue, but was cut short by Fanny's announcement that it was time to go; which she conveyed to her uncle by shutting up his scrap of music, and taking the clarionet out of his mouth." (I guess Dickens liked the woodwinds. A bassoonist figures in Bleak House.)

Then there's this from The Goldfinch: "Almost certainly I'd ruined the life of some deserving brainiac out in the Bronx - some poor clarinet-playing loser in the projects who was still getting beaten up for his algebra homework, who was going to end up punching tickets in a tollbooth instead of teaching fluid mechanics at Cal Tech because I'd taken his or her rightful place."

Anyone know any happier examples?

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