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¹ Schenker's diary for Friday June 4 records: "Weisse comes for his lesson, rather self-consciously, for he would have gladly spared himself the monthly tuition fee. Indecisively, he throws down one excuse after another, for instance that he can no longer pull himself together, that he doesn’t know whether he’ll be able to come – then he again asks if he may come to his usual lesson, but qualifies the request with the suspicious words “all of a sudden.” … But I am steadfast in providing him with tuition in order to endow him with a kind of double benefit, by not only providing teaching material but also giving him a useful lesson in morality. – Weisse speaks again about Adler, and in fact about his politeness. Thereupon I make myself clearer, and offer examples which show that Adler has been playing a game of intrigue for years – admittedly only out of his incapacity – and to a certain extent with personal sharpness I demonstrate that it is only the incapacity of the person that lets off steam in impolite actions. – It is almost the case that I shall actually have to regard Weisse’s current behavior, too, as a first sign of incapacity." ‒ Friday was a regular lesson day for Weisse.

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