A little brass-plate shone in the gleam of the gas-lamp before the door. “Pistorius, vicar,” I read thereon.
As I sat in my little room after supper I remembered that I had learnt nothing about Abraxas, or anything else from Pistorius.
We had scarcely exchanged ten words. But I was quite contented with the visit I had paid him.
And he had promised to play next time an exquisite piece of organ music, a Passacaglia by Buxtehude.
Without my having realized it, the organist Pistorius had given me a first lesson,
as we lay on the floor in front of the fireplace of his melancholy hermit’s room.
Staring into the fire had done me good, it had confirmed and set in activity tendencies which I had always had, but had never really followed.
Gradually and in part I saw light on the subject.
When quite a child I had from time to time the propensity to watch bizarre forms of nature, not observing them closely,
but simply surrendering myself to their peculiar magic, absorbed by the contemplation of their curling shapes.
Long dignified tree-roots, colored veins in stone, flecks of oil floating on water, flaws in glass—
all things of a similar nature had had great charm for me at that time, above all, water and fire, smoke, clouds, dust,
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