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Quote #10
Lucy would enjoy this letter, and the smile with which Mr. Beebe greeted Windy Corner was partly for her. She would see the fun of it, and some of its beauty, for she must see some beauty. Though she was hopeless about pictures, and though she dressed so unevenly—oh, that cerise frock yesterday at church!—she must see some beauty in life, or she could not play the piano as she did. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood (18.4).
Mr. Beebe also thinks of Lucy in terms of art (in the broader sense of the term), but instead of envisioning her as a distant and idealized woman in a painting, as Cecil does, he associates her with her music. He sees something mysterious about the way the musician approaches music that is less clear and less explainable than the approach of other artists, which perhaps explains Lucy’s difficulty understanding herself…