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simplest to project it on to an imaginary screen. A practiced cinema-goer will be able to so this quite easily.

:Lions and Shadows - Christopher Isherwood p85-86

...fiction had ceased to play its traditional role of reaching character through exquisitely observed milieu.

Garry Wills in a review New York Review of Books

p22 Jan.20.77

...It might be said that it is of dharma (the right way) that Balzac is writing when, near the end of his creative life, breaking through fatigue and a long blank period to write "Cousine Betty" in eight weeks, he reflects on the artist's vocation: "Constant labor is the law of art as well as the law of life, for art is the creative activity of the mind. And so great artists, true poets, do not wait for either commissions or clients; they create today, tomorrow, ceaselessly. And there results a habit of toil. A perpetual consciousness

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of the difficulties that keeps them in a state of marriage with the Muse, and her creative forces." And Proust, too killing himself to write his book, comes close to the concept of dharma when echoing Balzac, he says that in the end it is less the desire for fame than "the height of labouriousness" that takes a writer to the end of a work. But dharma as this ideal to truth in oneself, can also be used to reconcile men to servitude and make them find in paralyzing obedience the highest spiritual good. "And do thy duty, even if it be humble," says the Aryan Gita "rather than another's, even if it be great. To die in one's duty is life; to live in another's is death.

V.S. Naipaul New York Review of Books Jan 20.77 p8

"The taste of honey on a razor blade" ...the closely related emotions of attraction and repulsion which are the courses of suffering such an existence lived subject to conflicting emotions.

[illegible] Art - Doris Wiener Gallery - 1974

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