After Tom offers Casy a drink, the ex-preacher""s eyes glow as he moralizes about his beliefs:I asked myself, whatisthis here call(ed) Holy Spirit? Maybe that""s love.Dressed in her nightgown, she sneaks down the dark hallway past her mother Frau Berndl to get closer to the inviting music, climbing up to open a small transom where she stands enthralled:What I really lived for were those evenings when you were alone and I pretended you were playing just for me.[This is the start of the hero""s loss of objectivity and his obsessive, blurry descent into dream-like, timeless, and silent space as he pursues the mysterious female through the city""s sites - a shop, an old Spanish mission, a graveyard, an art gallery, an old house/hotel, the waters near the Golden Gate Bridge, and hen to an ancient forest of redwood Sequoia trees, etc.Quilty serves the first ping-pong ball, but Humbert lets it bounce across his side of he table without picking up the paddle: "Roman ping.He was tortured and experienced the starvation and death of his real-life family during the actual historical events revisited in this film.