Hi Carl,
Thanks. But doesn't the grammatical logic of "hide the ball and find it" serve as an example of how "it" refers to the sky? There is, of course, a great deal of resistance, logically, to any notion of digging a sky up... unless you're talking about a painted sky on a painting in progress.
Thanks for your generous interpretation, Jim. Yes, name dropping can be annoying, and usually turns me off as a reader. I'm considering how it's working here. Munch as a painter, I'm thinking, is important because I want his landscapes and paintings of trees (especially among his later paintings) to set the stage. With Ibsen, I get a similar psychological portrait, but also a second name drop. So... I'm thinking about it.
Rick
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