The man in the Verklaerte Nacht story is faced with a very difficult
situation.  As I have never been confronted with this situation I don't
know how I would react--the resolution in the poem that moved Schoeberg
shows a very difficult and most likely rarefied level of forgiveness
from a man who appears to have an equally rarefied measure of mental and
spiritual stability--quite the opposite of sickness.  Perhaps it was this
that brought out the overwhelmingly beautiful music that Schoenberg
composed.

Aaron J. Rabushka
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