Status Updates From The Bass Saxophone

In the foreword, he quotes from Nazi regulations prohibiting jazz: #8 of the ten regulations begins... "plucking of the strings is prohibited, since it is damaging to the instrument and detrimental to Aryan musicality."
#3.. "the pace must not exceed a certain degree of allegro, commensurate with the Aryan sense of discipline and moderation."
Fascists sure are afraid of people being free and enjoying life.

Finished the Introduction by Josef Skvorecky, as well as the first of the two novellas in this volume (Emöke).
Emöke was alright but didn't really capture my full attention. Part of this was probably the style of writing - very long sentences that blend or combine several thoughts at a time, with frequent 'comments' added as parenthesis which I found interrupted the flow. The Bass Saxophone is more to my liking

but what are we permitted to choose in this life of ours?