Conversational Excerpt 3: A Circular Spiral

W.M-W.: Oh yes, I know…Jerome Kern?  H.M.: ……. And that’s what I was thinking of, I was trying to think of the first name and I couldn’t.  W.M-W.: That’s the guy you mean? ….is it ?  H.M.: …………It is and it isn’t…  W.M-W.: It might have been somebody else?  H.M.: It might have been somebody else… because I think of… uh… Jerome Kern as… uh… playing in an orchestra (In fact, Jerome Kern did not play in orchestras).  W.M-W.: What sort of music is this? ……I mean,…operas…symphonies…musicals… what?  H.M.: I guess you could go the whole length, all of them…. I wasn’t very… I wasn’t particular… about… well there was… uh… I guess you could say the mid-twenties that… uh… that kind of music I didn’t care for at all. (Note the shift here away from H.M.’s alleged love of classical music, the original topic)  W.M-W.: Jazz?  H.M.: Jazz…that kind… I like the… uh… in a way…the symphony music. (Note the return here to the original topic: classical music)