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[Same Scene as Act I, a little later in the evening.]
De Bomph is playing a Prelude and Fugue of his own composition. He is finishing the Prelude and begins the Fugue, which is a short one of an extraordinary abrupt, elliptical character. The music can only be heard in the distance as a confusion of sounds but its character can be felt. The stage is empty until the last note dies away.