And I was afraid, not for myself, but I was afraid that I was going to lose him, that he was going to sink into one of his states, and that I would ruin his relationship with the violin if I started talking about scales and arpeggios and other exciting forms of didactic violin pedagogy.
Y yo sentí miedo, no por mí, sino miedo de que iba a perderlo, de que iba a hundirse en uno de sus estados y de que yo arruinaría su relación con el violín si comenzaba a hablarle de escalas y arpegios y otras formas excitantes de pedagogía didáctica de violín.