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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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35. unbounded and my life complete. What more could life offer? The grade schools of those days, perhaps fortunately, taught us drawing. Fortunately because later there might have been even more to unlearn. So between having to stand, shamed and shy - first on one foot then on the other - in one of the front corners of the room near the black board to learn the multiplication-tables, and doing beautifully executed and accurate reproductions of the maps in my Geography book for class work. I did bits of pen and ink sketches of animals, people and flowers. Some of those early drawings - pen studies rather naively but delicately done for a child - were of birds and fledglings, and nests crowded among branches and leaves. The ink, seemingly not always of the same vintage has faded differently in parts of the drawings with the years. Perhaps - but quite unlikely - the tree-climbing stage may have been a period of perceiving and acquiring a knowledge of natural phenomena, and it was
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35. unbounded and my life complete. What more could life offer? The grade schools of those days, perhaps fortunately, taught us drawing. Fortunately because later there might have been even more to unlearn. So between having to stand, shamed and shy - first on one foot then on the other - in one of the front corners of the room near the black board to learn the multiplication-tables, and doing beautifully executed and accurate reproductions of the maps in my Geography book for class work. I did bits of pen and ink sketches of animals, people and flowers. Some of those early drawings - pen studies rather naively but delicately done for a child - were of birds and fledglings, and nests crowded among branches and leaves. The ink, seemingly not always of the same vintage has faded differently in parts of the drawings with the years. Perhaps - but quite unlikely - the tree-climbing stage may have been a period of perceiving and acquiring a knowledge of natural phenomena, and it was
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