Leipzig, 1910: Rainer Maria Rilke's novel "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge"(Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) is published. Centering around a character loosely based on Rilke himself, Brigge is a poet full of reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. Those reflections are similar to the reflections from Rilke’s "Letters to a Young Poet" which I like so much: "…You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines." It reminds me on a Hokusai’s reflection about progressing in his drawing; "When I’ll be 110 years old", said Hokusai, "everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive." There is enough consolation for an aged artist in these Hokusai – Rilke thoughts!