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‘| HE Chinese student, we are told, would spend ten years of contemplation, watching growththe natural torm evolve its inner linebefore he took a brush into his hand, before he'd earned the right to mouth questions or formulate opinion. He spoke, of course, a language of ideaseach word he wrote acted itself entireno clotted adjectives to stand between ‘the vision and the fact, or fill his ears with dissipated whispering. No more could then be said but what the eye had seen. / The calligraphic man was not required to prove some pre-existent talent by preliminary exams or signing forms. \ Mechanics could be taught: but nothing fired vision.except long practice of the eye following Nature's fructifying signs, Think on this then who, early, seek to prove luck or inheritance as cause for light, or laud enrolment in the proper schools. Here, mere mechanics substitute for love; _person or pedantry stand for delight,
and truth’s made property of licensed fools.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 22
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