^[9]After this prodigy, what is there for even Bach to do but wind things down? Taking a four-note swatch of the subject's motivic cloth , he fashions a moving coda that descends, only to surge powerfully back upward, to conclusion . Two final felicities here are a simultaneous presentation of the subject motive in original and inverted forms—a synthesis, at the fugue's end, of what until now had been antitheses (or at least alternatives)—and a farewell appearance of the motive, deftly woven into the fugue's closing cadence.