No, now I'm not playing! I wasn't supposed to say, and you, Kudu, now you said it for real, so I'm not playing.
Kudu said something that stopped the writer from playing.
Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed  He used a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.