“It’s like they have established a transtemporal connection to Paganini, but instead of asking him to play the violin, they will only allow him to bang on a cowbell with a broken fork. Any time he stops, they break the connection.

Eventually, Paganini is reduced to a deaf idiot, and the people who went through unthinkable trouble to contact him are reforged the likenesses of their insistence upon their own primitive demands.”

— an anonymous informant