Dedication

To Scofield's Lear, Olivier's Othello, Dassin's Phaedra, Burton's Petruchio, Casals' Bach, Gould's impersonations, Tanguy's skies, Pissarro's streets, Magritte's lamps, Lipatti's calm, Sherman's silence, Bergman's Magic Flute, Merrill's Ephraim, Nabokov's Pale Fire, Wilbur's Molière, Pope's Homer, O'Toole's Lawrence, Plummer's Iago, Branagh's Henry, Pappas's Iphigenia, Depardieu's Cyrano, Danes' Juliet, Stubbs' Olivia, Fawlty and Manuel, Patsy and Edina, Zermatt's Zum See, Hasenklever's Bonnes Mares, and to the sound of a piano I once heard in Austria, drifting out through the open windows into the breezy countryside.