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The Old Man and C [MultiFormat]
eBook by Sheila Finch
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eBook Category: Alternate History
eBook Description:  When his father wanted him to leave the school in Munich because of his poor grades, his mother used her own money to pay for his violin lessons. Now at 75, the old music teacher looks back at his lifelong fascination with physics and senses that something in his life has been left undone.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Amazing, 1989
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2000
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [72 KB], eReader (PDB) [29 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [16 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [16 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [38 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [88 KB], hiebook (KML) [67 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [44 KB], iSilo (PDB) [13 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [17 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [45 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [27 KB]
Words: 4632
Reading time: 13-18 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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"We're going to win the medal," she promised. It was important to him that this little farm girl take the very last gold medal. Yet he knew he should not allow his own sense of self-worth to become bound to a pupil's performance in a competition. How had it happened? When one is young, he thought, how many choices lie at one's fingertips? How many roads beckon the eager traveller? Time spreads out before the young man like a map of a marvelous sunlit country. He knows he can write symphonies, build castles, discover the secrets of the universe--which will it be? He does not know (for God is merciful) that the choice of one road shuts out the possibility of another. Who can guarantee which is right to take? His mother had always wanted him to play the violin. And he had been an indifferent scholar in school. "Herr Einstein?" Rosa said, her young face creased in a frown. "Aren't you well?"
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