Status Updates From The Lemon Table

'I go out by myself to dine alone and reflect upon mortality. Or I go to the Kämp, the Societetshuset, the König to discuss the subject with others. The strange business of Man lebt nur einmal. I join the lemon table at the Kämp. Here, it is permissible—indeed, obligatory—to talk about death. It is most companionable. A. does not approve.'

An unfinished Eighth symphony, a government pension, "my music had been used in the The Jazz Singer," a letter from K. worried about tempo markings—I believe the narrator in "The Silence" is Jean Sibelius.