Break is talking again. "The Musical Offering is not just a composition, it is a challenge! It’s a lecture series, a very polite feudal fuck you, and a statement of identity. And it’s something else." A high note hangs for a moment. "Bach didn’t give Freddie the full score. What he actually handed over was a kind of compressed version—implicate music. If Freddie wanted to know what Bach had laid on him—if he wanted to know for sure whether he’d been answered, and someone like Freddie can’t take another bloke’s word for it—he had to educate himself in the old geezer’s understanding. Exactly what he’d never bothered to do. The Musical Offering takes Freddie’s gambit and turns it on its head. In order to counter Bach’s riposte, Frederick had to educate himself in all the things Bach thought a king ought to know, and thereby become the man Bach desired him to be. Old bastard quite literally changed his enemy’s mind—to make it more like his own. Seek and ye shall find, Bach tells Frederick. Quaerendo invenietis."