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The unflattering balance between the pianist and the orchestra in the Rachmaninov makes Janis 's playing sound harder than it probably was . We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves , and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north . If he lied , it directly concerned two ambitions central to his life : the defeat at a theoretical level of fashionable twentieth-century linguistic philosophy and triumph at a personal level over Wittgenstein , the sorcerer who had dogged his career . Whereupon , the malicious rogue , watching his opportunity , when I was walking under one of them , shook it directly over my head , by which a dozen apples , each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel , came tumbling about my ears ; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop , and knocked me down flat on my face ; but I received no other hurt , and the dwarf was pardoned at my desire , because I had given the provocation . I knew I could n't do it forever . That became important to me , because we so easily lose sight of nature and become disconnected from it .