Almighty painter

Chapter 593 Soul Flame
"Do you think that affection will develop into love? It can't be friendship." Anna replied: "No, it is a nested relationship."

Anna tapped the tray table.

It signals to Detective Cat that it is time to take class notes seriously.

“When we observe a person’s feelings, whether it’s your nephew, that little girl, your research partner, or even a character in a book, observing their love is the most important thing.”

"Love is the physical expression of a person's deepest emotions, the flame of the soul in the eyes, in the words, in the casual walks, sittings and lyings, and the reflection and projection of their own selves."

Miss Irina explained: "Love is the deepest expression of thought. The most profound character in the book, even if he is a cold and hard character, must have love. If you can't understand their love, you can't understand them."

"But what is love? Spartacus's desire for freedom is a kind of love, Aristotle I love my teacher, but I love truth more."

"During the Battle of Sedan between Prussia and France, French cavalry officer de Galliffe faced the advanced breech-loading rifles and hundreds of advanced field artillery displayed by the Prussians. He knew they had already lost the battle, but when the order came, he still led his men to charge forward and launched four breakout charges as a pioneer."

"When the commander asked him, Galliffet, can your troops still fight? He replied with a romantic temperament, 'Of course, sir, as long as there is one man left in our cavalry, we can charge for the country.' This is a kind of love. The Prussian army on the opposite side relied on rapid-fire rifles with a range several times that of the French army, and industrialized killing, killing so many that no one could bear to kill."

"King William looked at the rows of fallen French cavalrymen in the distant fields through the telescope, and exclaimed with emotion, 'Oh my God, they are all real warriors.' The Prussian marshal next to him was very angry - 'I have never seen such a reckless and stupid decision. They were about to surrender, but they let their men charge like this, just like the last charge - the French are purely committing deliberate murder.' If you like, in a broad sense, you can also call this a kind of love."

She gave examples.

"The former is love for the country, the latter is respect for warriors and love for life. Love is the deepest emotion and obsession of human beings. It can make people ignore pain, difficulties, positions, and even desperate situations. As long as it is a strong and impulsive emotional emotion, it can be classified as love when it develops to the extreme."

"Parents' love for their children, children's love for their parents, people's love for their beloved careers, all of these can be classified as love, and friendship can certainly be classified as love."

"There are many kinds of love in the world. Romance is special. Love between men and women is naturally possessive. Love carries the element of desire, so it is selfish. Friendship can sometimes make people jealous, but because it does not involve the instinct of biological inheritance, it is not as obvious as love."

Anna snorted softly, "There is no such thing in the world. I love someone one, three, five. Two, four, six, and I lend it to others like a doll. We play together on Sundays. This is too childish. When you were a child, you would lend your doll to others because you had a lot of dolls and you didn't value it enough. If you value the doll in your hand to the point of piety, such as if it was a relic that your mother sewed for you before she died... then people usually wouldn't lend it to others to play with, right?"

Anna, the sloth-headed strategist, concluded: "So you see, when one kind of love and another kind of love, love and the doll that loves you, reach the deepest point, the boundaries become blurred and the expressions become similar - I don't want to call it fetishism, I would rather say that the capacity of a person's soul is so large, and when it is completely filled with a strong emotion, it will show a similar luster."

"It's like a light color wheel. At the beginning of love, at the outermost edge of the color wheel, different characteristics will be shown, colorful. And the light will be continuously mixed, and the emotions between them will be continuously enriched. Then no matter what the initial color is, when it reaches the center of the color wheel, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple will eventually become blazing, clear, pure sunlight."

"Falling in love with someone changes that person. She changes you, and you are also changed by her invisibly. It's like a planet passing through the distant space and crashing into the gravitational capture range of another planet. This kind of change, this kind of capture, can not only happen when face to face. Gravity is invisible, love is also invisible, love is change."

"That moment of tacit understanding is the moment when their tacit understanding and their attraction are aligned. This is obviously the case with your nephew and that girl."

Anna issued a diagnosis certificate and then issued a critical illness notice.

"So, if you ask me, he has a lot to live up to."

Gu Weijing looked at the words on the screen.

Love is change.

Mr. Sloth is indeed a master of emotions.

His words are always full of poetic philosophy, much more profound than the bar tips in the book "How to Pick Up Girls".

Every person who comes into your life and enters your gravitational field changes his or her character to some extent.

Katsuko Sakai taught him tranquility.

Koko taught him to be strong.

Mr. Gu taught him to be tough.

……

What about Koko? How did he change Koko?

Gu Weijing turned his gaze back to the yard.

The yard was empty. Looking down from the window, there was no one in sight under the old locust tree.

the strange thing is.

But he knew clearly that Koko was still there.

She just sat on the other side of the old locust tree to take a rest.

Maybe braiding your hair?
Covered by the shadow of the tree, Gu Weijing could not see the other person, but he knew intuitively that Koko was leaning against the tree, working on her hair.

The thin strands of hair rose and fell like silhouettes under the branches of the tree.

When he looked carefully.

I seemed to hear the sound of five or six small chains on Koko's wrists, the blessed Buddhist beads and small accessories colliding with each other, and the girl's humming, as if carried into my ears by the wind.

Just like what a book says -

Connected into a string of small notes.

Not a cavity.

Like the jingle of iron horses on the eaves.

"So, whether it's love or friendship, it doesn't matter."

Gu Weijing collected his thoughts and started typing.

"The biggest difference between friendship and love is the difference in desire. Friendship can turn into love under certain conditions. But the desire for possession does not necessarily manifest as possessiveness."

“In the end, perhaps the deepest desire is not the warmest embrace.”

"Two planets captured by each other do not necessarily collide with each other and turn into a ball of hot, sticky dust in the universe. They may just rotate in the long and cold boundless space, locked in each other's gravity, at a constant distance, circle after circle, second after second, ten thousand years after ten thousand years."

"Remember I mentioned to you that Graham Greene said that after a short and sweet period of passionate love, lovers will either recognize each other's ugly faces in trivial life and become vulgar in trivial arguments. Or they will become soul mates and become pious and sacred. In the end -"

Miss Elena paused.

As she typed, she whispered, “The deepest desire becomes the simplest companionship. It becomes similar to friendship.”

"But what does it mean to not feel guilty? If you don't have contact, you won't feel guilty? It's impossible for a person not to feel guilty. Does a man feel guilty for having an affair with someone else behind his wife's back? Does he feel no guilt for having a long-distance relationship with someone else? This is too irresponsible. No matter what choice he makes, he will be in pain and entangled, so... I say your nephew is finished."

"He made his own choice, so he must suffer. If you want perfection, you can't blame others." "As for what that girl thinks, I don't know."

Anna shook her head slightly.

"She might get hurt, or she might meet a more suitable boy one day, or she might not care about any of this at all."

"Love is powerful. Some people become weak because of love, some become brave because of love, some become unrecognizable because of love, and some become more radiant because of love. Which one is she? Which one will she become?"

"You said she was a proud person."

"Proud, cheerful and a little stubborn." Gu Weijing added.

"Cheerful and stubborn people are the hardest to guess. They are a contradiction. They always express their seemingly grand ambitions too rashly and generously reward everyone with a smile. But pride makes her hide her deepest emotions in the deepest part of her heart, with a stubborn face, not willing to tell anyone." Mr. Sloth sent a reply.
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When Gu Weijing walked out of the studio.

Katsuko Sakai and Koko were standing at the drawing board, discussing matters related to their portfolio.

"The progress is really fast... If we keep going like this, we can finish all the first editions before the weekend. Before the school recruitment fair starts, we should still have time to select a few key works and go over them from beginning to end, trying to make them more outstanding. Koko, I know I've said this before, but I still want to say it again. Have you ever said that you are very spiritual when you paint?"

Shengzi looked at the drawing board in front of him and said encouraging words.

"Really? I think I'm smart. Of course, it's mainly because of Mr. Sakai's good teaching." Koko smiled happily.

Gu Weijing walked over.

"The Singapore Art Exhibition has sent me a second round of emails confirming my manuscript has been accepted," he said.

Shengzi turned around.

"That's great. I'm not surprised at all. This won't be an obstacle for you. Relax. It won't be in the second round, and it won't be in the third round. Such a wonderful work. If it can't even pass the audition, I think it would be the curator's dereliction of duty."

Katsuko Sakai nodded and said, "The only concern is that I don't know where the booths will be opened and arranged, and whether they can be put together."

Gu Weijing turned his gaze to the easel in front of Sakai Katsuko.

The main works in Koko's portfolio are displayed there.

"Are you busy?"

"I'm busy, I'm busy. Isn't it obvious? You have no sense at all." Koko rolled her eyes at Gu Weijing and said with puffed cheeks, "I'm working hard to finish my manuscript. I'm listening to the key points in class and don't have time for you to come over and chat. I've borrowed your girlfriend to play with. If you want to chat, talk to me later."

Chirp.

Koko grabbed the corner of Sakai Katsuko's clothes and pulled her aside to avoid the unstable factor Gu Weijing.

Katsuko Sakai probably found this scene very funny.

She giggled twice.

She waved gently at Gu Weijing and let Koko drag her away.

The girls' conversation was heard in the wind.

"Koko, can I ask you a question?"

"Yeah. Please go ahead, Mr. Sakai."

"You've worked so hard on preparing your portfolio, do you have a target university you really want to go to?"

"Is it my choice? If you ask me, I would like to go to any good university, such as Yale Academy of Fine Arts, Cambridge University, or School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As long as they offer me an offer, I will go." Koko snorted, "I am easy to please. I am not picky."

"Have you ever thought about going to Japan?"

"Ms. Sakai, are you going back to Japan to study?" Koko asked.

"Yes, my family has helped me contact a tutor, and I'm going to Tokyo University of the Arts," Katsuko Sakai replied.

"Tokyo University of the Arts is a little harder, and the admission card is stricter, but if it's Musashino or Tama Academy of Art, it should be... not too difficult if you want to get in."

Katsuko Sakai probably really wants to help Koko.

Uncle Sakai is a professor at Tama Academy of Art, although he has almost no KPIs for guiding students.

but.

It is not difficult to describe it as saying hello when admitting students. Katsuko Sakai is already being conservative.

"Thank you, thank you, Shengzi, these are all good universities. I have no way to repay you, so I can only pledge my love to you."

Koko reached out her hands, hugged Katsuko Sakai, and rubbed her face wildly.

"But if you go to university in Japan, you have to learn Japanese, right?"

"Yes, there are very few majors taught in English in Japanese universities." Miss Sakai nodded.

"That's terrible. I don't know if I have any talent for drawing, but I know that I have never been very talented in learning languages. You don't know that the French minor language test almost gave me dark circles under my eyes."

Koko ruffled Shengzi's hair again. "It's not a big deal, but thank you anyway."

Gu Weijing stood there without moving.

He looked at the tilted easel that Koko had placed under the shade of the tree. It was a watercolor self-portrait. A self-portrait is a good choice for a portfolio of fine art.

Compared with oil painting, the cycle of painting a watercolor is much shorter, and when you first start painting, you need to pay more attention to spiritual inspiration rather than hard work.

This collection of works chosen by Katsuko Sakai is the main direction.

It is indeed not wrong.

A choice of colors that can be painted in a short time.

(End of this chapter)