What could they possibly have to say to one another? So he had asked, “What do you think of Puccini?” “I loathe him,” Stravinsky had replied. To which he had answered, “So do I.” Did either of them mean it—mean it as absolutely as they had spoken? Probably not. One was being instinctively dominant, the other instinctively submissive. That was the trouble with “historic meetings.
