Master: Why don’t you speak, Disciple?
Disciple: About what Master?
Master: About music.
Disciple: What could I say?
Master: The truth.
Disciple: But for so many years that is what I thought that I was doing. I kept talking about music. In order to come across as an expert, and now I see how empty I am.
Master: What do you mean?
Disciple: I realized that I am play with the instruments, but I do not in fact play music. I pass my time. I remain within the superficial.
Master: You are still at the Archipelagos.
Disciple: I do not know what I ought to do…
Master: To learn music!
Disciple: But everyone will understand that I have been lying all this time. . my reputation will collapse.
Master: Your reputation is not worth anything and even less so in front of the music as such.
Disciple: You are right…
Master: Did you not do the same with chess…
Disciple: I have now changed.
Master: I’m glad, continue therefore your course in music as well.