Tama Matheson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And she fell in love with you, do you think?
I think she fell in love with me, but something intervened.
Whether it was the rather unenticing prospect of marrying an impoverished young composer who would follow her around like a sheepdog while she pursued her career...
or whether she had been apprised of certain other quirks.
She broke it off.
I don't know.
Well, worse than that, she went for a holiday to Warsaw and returned to St.
Petersburg a married woman.
Oh, that's making it very clear.
And I can assure you, nothing dampens an engagement quite so effectively as that.
I was heartbroken for, oh, hours.
And for a while after this debacle, I pursued my old vice with refreshed abandon, and I was sure now that I was not suited to women, nor were women suited to me.
A curious concatenation of circumstances drove me to it.
My brother Modest came to me in the late 1870s and said, Piotr, I am the same as you in my nature and my constitution.
And I said, Modest, you must repress these pernicious passions.
I think of nothing but trying to get rid of these passions all my life.
They are the greatest obstacle to my happiness, our happiness.
And he said, how can I deny what I am by nature?
And I said, you must try, you must try.
He said, I can't do it.
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