Section 11: One begins as a student but becomes a friend of clouds, At a moment of trotting on only one foot in so much snow, If there's nothing out the windows look at books & The run, that if you broke it, you'd have none Summary

In "One begins as a student but becomes a friend of clouds," art is inseparable from the search for reality. The narrator feels "intuitively that this which was incomprehensible was expectant, increasing, was good" (page 119). Events are not lacking as the years pass, and he insists that his life has been full of lucky chance though it...