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Chekhovian hero was the unfortunate bearer of a vague but beautiful human truth, a burden which he could neither get rid of [n]or carry.

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Conversations with Balanchine

by W. McNeil Lowry New Yorker - Sept 12-83

... I was young. I was not sufficiently expert in teaching. I did rather well teaching, but not like now. Now I'm absolute; I'm almost one hundred percent sure that I know how it is. What is the matter with people, their possibility. Of course, you can't detect that at once, but for a while you wait, and then you see that something will happen or maybe its already the end p 60

... they are always monsters of perfection. p 63

[Phrase in margin:] 9-15-83. Style is not conceptual. It's juice - its whatever you're born with, you see. p 81

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The Photographic Eye by A. Hyatt Mayor

Selected Writings and a Bibliography 1983

The eye of any age is so subtly yet inexorably a part of the mind of that age that one is tempted to wonder if photography could have been invented at any time before the 1830's in spite of the fact that the elements had been on hand for centuries.

Certainly the photograph would have seemed a distraction of vicious curiosity to the medieval scrutiny of everything for possible symbolism and moral value. And the mannerist world, though it showed its liking for architectural perspective by assembling the camera obscura with lens, would have rejected most photographs of human figure for being so far from its canon of proportion. But in the 1830's Balzac wanted to examine and record his surroundings down to the last