Eye to eye in the village.
"One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven," recounted Marc Chagall, "I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, 'Mama I want to be a painter.'" This wish was out of line with the circumstances. The oldest of nine children in a family of modest means, he was aware of the constraints and his father's toil in the fish-curing business, "My heart used to twist like a Turkish bagel as I watched him lift those weights and stir the herring with his frozen hands."
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