two choices: to become invisible, or to become so visible that nothing could touch him' says the cellist Henisch to Paul. (p. 136a).
             By 1941, the Allies (Britain, France, USSR and the USA) agreed to liberate Austria from Nazi control. The Soviet Union managed this task in 1945. However, Austria did not achieve total self-rule until 1955 after the Allies decided it was strong enough to survive as a country independently.
             Austria has many buildings of architectural significance, located predominantly in the capital Vienna, and Salzburg. Paul travels to Vienna in 1975 after competing and teaching in Salzburg to find out about Keller, '...Vienna brought out the tourist sulking deep within, set me gaping, muttering inanities to myself, reaching for a non-existent camera...' (p. 133a). Keller had spoken of Vienna with disdain "The Ringstrasse," he snorted again. "Of course. An excellent city for military pomp and processions.''(p. 45b).
             Two very famous opera houses are found in Vienn
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