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First, I present the original theme by Schopenhauer, and then each section of the orchestra will interpret its own version of the original theme.
A company of porcupines crowded themselves very close together one cold winter's day so as to profit by one another's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death. But soon they felt one another's quills, which induced them to separate again. And now, when the need for warmth brought them nearer together again, the second evil arose once more. So that they were driven backwards and forwards from one trouble to the other, until they had discovered a good distance at which they could most tolerably exist.1