Nearly always in the implacable repetition of three fateful notes. ... And then breaks off again, with the appearance of those three fateful notes, the first dead end. ... And just changing one note can change the entire meaning of the piece. ... And it all starts when the piano and basses come lurching in with a version of the dead end theme. ...

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