• Chap. 4 The Invention of Music
• The title of this chapter is simply straightforward. Who says every chapter heading must be playful?
• This chapter rounds out the background of the two main characters, Ormus Cama and Vina Apsara, and describes how they first met, when he was 18 and she was 12.
• Quotations:
• "... she learned how a human being may believe two contradictory things at once." [p. 92]
• "What's a culture? ... "A group of micro-organisms grown in a nutrient substance under controlled conditions" ... In India it is often said that the music I am talking about is precisely one of those viruses with which the almighty West has infrected the East, one of the great weapons of cultural imperialism. ... Why then offer up paeans to culture traitors like Ormus Cama, who betrayed his roots and spent his pathetic lifetime pouring the trash of America into our children's ears? ... Such are the noisome slithers of the enslaved micro-organisms, twisting and hissing as they protect the inviolability of their sacred homeland, the glass laboratory slide." [p. 95]

The distribution of personally selected quotes is not uniform. Fine.