1 result for (book:tps7 AND heading:"delet session octob 18 1983" AND stemmed:thought)
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violet
Rembrandt
enhanced
stared
hurrying
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(At first I thought it was a trick of sunlight—which was quite diluted as it came through the room’s east windows—but all of a sudden I stopped to look at the painting as it sat on the shelf I’d built high up on the south wall just inside the door. For a moment I was almost transfixed—for the painting, I suddenly saw, was alive. The girl’s violet eyes stared down at me as though they would move behind their violet glasses at any moment. I stared. She stared back. And I felt life there. The flesh and hair and sweater looked alive even though they never moved. Yet I half expected them to. It was a meeting of eyes.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
(One of the first thoughts that came to mind after I realized what was happening was Jane’s book on Rembrandt. Some of the passages of that book, I understood as I left my studio, described what I had just experienced. I felt this without checking the book to see if I was right.
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