Four novellas and an appendix of two stories and an essay constitute "Symphonie Fantastique." The titles of the four novelettes are "At Last The Distinguished Thing," "Steiglitz's Folly," "The Mozart Machine," and "Intrusive Voices." "At Last The Distinguished Thing": my title does all the limning and adumbrating I want. The cognoscenti will seize and devour the hint. The elderly gentleman dying in London in February 1916 is not identified by name...