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a noun employed in a general sense. Here a partitive sense is hinted: _I
shall know_ (some) _music_.

25-1: =mi vida se reducia a soplar=: _I passed all my time in
playing_ (_soplar_, to blow).

25-2: =notabilidades=: _noted men; celebrities_.

25-3: =al ave=: _el_ replaces _la_ before feminine nouns beginning
with accented _a_ or _ha. Un_ is occasionally used for _una_ in the same
cases (not academic).

25-4: =me encontre con que=, etc.: _con_ governs the whole following
clause as its object. Psychologically an intervening noun is indicated:
_I met with_ (the discovery) _that I could not_, etc.

25-5: =haga son=: (make sound) _play_. Alarcon has accented _son_ to