Decisive moments we've survived

You know, I think I'd al-

ways wanted to affect an

open collar, but it was-

n't until events allowed

one to do so, that he and 

I were persuaded that it

would not make one resem-

ble Bastiaan van Gaalen. 

Mind you, the eye does

race to affirm the like-

ness, but then accustoms

itself fast enough to the

speed of light, as to run

right on past. Even so,

you can't know the rush 

of that first harrowing, 

rational, defenseless ap-

prehension, of collision 

with that reckless, ruth-

less organ; but this only 

makes any escape the more 

gratifying.

Alexandre Benois
Costume design for 
  Merezhovsky's
  "Tsarevich Aleksei"
watercolor 
1919


Don Hong-Oai
Tianzi Mountain, gibbons
1986