Trivia / A Romance of Two Worlds

• Doing It for the Art: Heliobas' sister Zara makes her exquisite statues for self-expression only. The idea of selling or exhibiting them revolts her. In fact, before the end, she makes the narrator promise to destroy her unfinished masterwork. Good thing she's independently wealthy. Perhaps more understandably, Heliobas does all his medical work for free, while Cellini sells his pictures but gives most of the money to charity. The author of the "Letters from a Dead Musician" was so in awe of the Platonic idea of Music that he ended up not daring to compose or play a note.