At the concert (which was at three) I found [Anton] Rubinstein who is here visiting his wife for Christmas. We dined together (at the Grand Hôtel de Russie, Babuino). As a chasse-café I banged out for him my arrangement of the Tic-tac Tarantelle by [Alexander] Dargomizhsky.

Coordinate term: fair-weather

Whose revolution being regular, it hath no power nor efficacy peculiar from its orientality, but equally disperſeth his beams

At first I’d feel lonely, afraid, itchy, very afraid to go on with my story, afraid it wasn’t any good, afraid it was terrific and I was about to spoil it, afraid it was better than I understood and I would never know how to equal it again […]