The Dreams

Dream 109

This was my pupil to whom I taught music and singing, and who quickly became a wealthy star. Meanwhile, I fell into obscurity, utterly forgotten in my protégé’s shadow — so I left my beautiful and arduous profession, to take up training in the field of archaeology.

But my student gave up learning and knowledge altogether. Addicted to drugs, he let his voice go to waste. One evening we met at a party by chance: he didn’t know me, and I didn’t know him.

Many there began to wonder how we had both fallen so far — and why.