Capitolo 5
he/she sees at least to him that she subsequently is not wounded while it is becoming her
protects, his/her shelter. Who she is, what has been his/her life, where she comes
from, as she happens to arrive here--these are reserves in that of
raced that we don't thrust in there. Immediately behind her she allows to fall a curtain
of silence that he/she closes away every so signal of his/her past. But there is
other signals of that past that she cannot hide and what ours is
privileges, our duty, the province of our art, to read. They is written
on his/her face, on his/her hands, on his carrying; they is written entirely on
his/her--the bruises of the rudenesses of the life, the long shades of the dark
days, the pride of unwounded once and the wounded pride now, the
untamable wish, an elevated spirit for which wings were meant the
superior air but that it is broken and it struck the dust. All these are sublime
things to paint in some human expression; they is the imprints of
destines on our faces. The greatest masters of the brush that the world
you/he/she has ever known you/he/she could not ask greater anything. When You
sees her/it, some of you can perhaps think about the certain breve but eternal
words of Pascal: 'Man is a reed that bends but you/he/she doesn't break.' Man is
Your model, then a woman with a great expression; the face of fight of
a woman to the peace. Now out on I battle-live her/it darkened of this
the face of shiny woman a serene sun, and it is out that sun which hands
on him his/her human and marvelous radiance, his/her supreme expression: the love
of his/her/their mother. Your model is the beauty of the maternity, the sacredness of
the maternity, the glory of the maternity: that has to be her portrait
what you are to paint."
He stopped him. Their faces burned; their eyes disclosed depth in them
natures didn't mix before never; from out those depths young, tender
creative strengths came before, anxious to service, to respect. He added some
details:
"For once after she has placed you without doubt he/she will see very different