Paul on the other hand, feels that he needs Keller praise to accomplish his goals. This praise is forever absent throughout his training with Herr Keller. Paul's last visit to Keller's room above the Swan fuels many big changes in their relationship. During their last time together, Keller admits that he does care about Paul. Herr Keller opens up and shares his deepest and darkest secrets with Paul, but Paul is more interested in his awaiting girlfriend. In a selfish frenzy of horniness, Paul leaves Eduard Keller, mid confessional. In late 1977 Paul receives a letter from the Darwin Hospital, seeking information about the next of kin of Eduard Keller. Keller is sick, but In No Pain' he was Suffering a Long Illness. Paul returns to the North to visit Keller, his beloved music teacher. Unfortunately Keller passes away and Paul feels the need to spread the word that a great man had died. I find it hard to understand how much I came to love the man, to depend on him. At the time (and again now, reliving that time) it seemed - seems - impossible, the love that Paul and Keller felt for each other was like the love a father would feel or a son and vice versa. They depended on each other. Paul taught Keller to live again, and Keller helped Paul to realise perfection isn't everything, that "something- is everything. .
In the novel Maestro Paul's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Crabbe, teach him that opposites do attract. The distinction is not as clear cut as this, but Mr. Crabbe steers towards the intellectual and Mrs. Crabbe to the sensual. In these paintings of opposites I have always put my father first' Paul says. Does this mean that Paul values intellect over sense? From his final attitude to Megan it would seem this way. The relationship between Paul and his parents is one of praise. They praise him for his pianist skills, constantly filling his head with nonsense and false hope. It could be seen that Mr.