Still, it's hard not to miss the music that brought such distinctive and seductive life to the other plays in the cycle.
"That was so rare," he relates," in the past I'd dealt with women who were gold diggers, into the glamorous seductive life, the fame, money, premieres.
What had seemed a seductive still life, as sensuously painted as anything by Manet, becomes its opposite: a living head still arguing with everything around it in this astonishing outburst of a picture.
He's celebrating with Germany's finest new-music group, Ensemble Modern, and a performance of his Music for 18 Musicians, that seductive, pulsing, life-affirming hour of rhythmic invention and slow-moving tectonic harmonies.
I tell him I think he's getting there, but that he must still find some aspects of the life seductive.
In addition to the social science studies that she cites to caution against seductive generalizations about life events, literature offers the best defense, by shedding light on the variety and complexity of experiences of marriage, for example, or of death.
A weekend didn't feel nearly long enough to slow down to the Alentejo's very seductive pace of life, or to take in enough of this beautiful, quiet corner of Europe.
And his sudden escape from his KGB guards at Le Bourget Airport in Paris on 16 June 1961 seemed less a grand ideological statement and more a spontaneous act of defiance from a young man suddenly exposed to the seductive glamour of life in the West.
Most of all, I found myself lulled into the gentle, seductive rhythm of life on the lake, paddling past kingfishers when I wanted to buy snacks from a grocery store on stilts amid the lotus ponds.
"During the night, the Guatemalan soldiers would chauffeur them into the seductive Flores night life," a riverine town almost 100km inside Guatemala.
She holds forth in the digressive voice of a seductive, larger-than-life guru, evoking a New Age businesswoman or a trendy academic.
