Ah ha! - well found Ferox! The quote in full is even better:
" 'One, two, three,' he cried tapping his foot, and the cabin was filled with the opening movement of Boccherini's Corelli sonata, a glorious texture of sound, the violin sending up brilliant jets through the 'cello's involutions, and they soared up and away from the grind of pumps, the tireless barking, the problems of command, up, the one answering the other, joining separating, twining, rising into their native air. " Post Captain Chapter 7
By the by - Boccherini's Corelli sonata? Is there such a thing, surely a mistake?
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Date: 2012-03-16 02:11 pm (UTC)" 'One, two, three,' he cried tapping his foot, and the cabin was filled with the opening movement of Boccherini's Corelli sonata, a glorious texture of sound, the violin sending up brilliant jets through the 'cello's involutions, and they soared up and away from the grind of pumps, the tireless barking, the problems of command, up, the one answering the other, joining separating, twining, rising into their native air. "
Post Captain Chapter 7
By the by - Boccherini's Corelli sonata? Is there such a thing, surely a mistake?