his artistic work so that it might bring him a return — and that is possible, if he would listen to me — he goes off and amuses himself with barren studies of no profit: the history of humanity, the evolution of civilization, astronomy, the philosophy of religions. Is there anything in the universe of less material use than these studies?"
And whenever Gibran and I took up the subject, he would protest nervously, saying: "To China — and with a dark young Jewess whose eyes spin flirtation!! And for whom love is like a drink of water!! This, upon my life, is madness itself, Youssef! I forbid you with all my strength even to jest in this sense" — saying this with his finger raised in my face, threatening and warning... while I would go on: "and if fate should be fulfilled with Léa"... and Gibran would cut me short, laughing his nervous, mirthless laugh and shaking his head right and left: "Léa is all I needed!" Then he would add in his serious tone: "The matter is of the utmost importance, Youssef, and I marvel at you — how you squander your time in this fashion!.. We must strive to understand the meaning of the artistic movement in Paris.. this mad revolution in full career against drawing and beauty.. this violent battle between the imitation, or copying, of nature and the repudiation of it?!. This morning I saw some pictures.. they bewildered me, and I fell to asking myself: to what point, I wonder, are we to approve the copying of nature, or its imitation after the manner of Leonardo and Michelangelo, or the repudiation of nature after the manner of these... madmen?! If we neglect proportion and measure and precise observation... if we sacrifice the most striking
manifestations of beauty, of line and form, as they appear to the sound eye, and strip art of its most important elements... These, Youssef, are the questions to which we must find the answers... not the questions of Suzanne and Léa.. and travel to China..."
After this sermon I would soon pass over into Gibran's
atmosphere and fall in with him in deep, serious thought, as we strove with effort to analyze the manifestations of the development — nay, the artistic revolution — that had begun to sweep Paris, splitting the army of artists into ranks, and leaving in the minds of the conservatives among them a great question mark!..
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