PROFESSOR RUBEK (atter alvorlig). Det var det, at hele dette her med kunstnerkald og med kunstnergerning – og sligt noget, – det begyndte at forekomme mig som noget så tomt og hult og intetsigende igrunden.
PROFESSOR RUBEK. [Again serious.] It was this, that all the talk about the artist’s vocation and the artist’s mission, and so forth, began to strike me as being very empty, and hollow, and meaningless at bottom.
