Moonlight and wolves

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

“You’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or wolf rolled past like a ball.

—Anton Chekhov, letter to his brother, May 1886
(tr. Avrahm Yarmolinsky)

(This piece of writing advice is often condensed, rearranged, and misquoted as: “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” See the Quote Investigator column on this at: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/30/moon-glint/ )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.