3923. But then, take
that tree that is so difficult to draw and dig it up and transport it about a
mile away, and have a look at it and try to draw it. Drawing a tree at a great
distance is similar to drawing a simple cotton swab. Drawing a picture of a cotton
swab is just a matter of two parallel lines, and an oval of scribbles so
nothing could be simpler.
3924. However, what
if we have a very serious student who wants to truly draw the cotton swab as it
appears to the eye under a microscope? Consider the overly conscientious
student who wants a true rendering of all of the various strands of cotton as
they overlap and hide each other in their infinity. That student must confront
the same problems of drawing the tree. There are infinitude of visible details,
and it can neither be done, or even contemplated in any seriousness.
3925. All that is
neither here nor there, but I point it out to indicate how easily it was for
Emily to mistake the fake horse for her real one, when she saw it at a distance
all in pieces. Even when she bent down to look at it close up, she still did
not realize that it was not her sculpture, but a forgery and an imposter.
3926. She kept
looking back and forth from the stand to the shattered clay on the floor and
tried to imagine just how such an accident could have occurred, when she heard
her brothers laughing about it from behind the cabinet. Suddenly she put a
picture together in her mind of what must have happened. She jumped to the
conclusion that they had bumped into the stand by accident and tipped it over
onto the floor.
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