DOI article:
Makower, Stanley V.: A beautiful accident
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.27805#0306
302 A Beautiful Accident
pale green that tingle. The rest of the street is as before, but
now it seems a mere setting to this window, exactly the right
deadness of tone and feeling to set off the brilliance of this bit.
And then this patch of light appeared exactly at the right
moment. A second later, the lights spring up in all the
windows, and the character of the scene is changed. The little
window would have a fresh relation to the other things in the
street, but some singular beauty in its new form would surely
appear. It must : it is inevitable. And yet it was only an acci-
dent that that light appeared when it did. Some one may have
wanted to read and found it necessary to light the gas, but the
street has nothing to do with that, nor has the little window.
All that was necessary for it to preserve its reputation was a
particular light at a particular moment behind the watery pane.
So it happened—by accident of course : a beautiful accident.
pale green that tingle. The rest of the street is as before, but
now it seems a mere setting to this window, exactly the right
deadness of tone and feeling to set off the brilliance of this bit.
And then this patch of light appeared exactly at the right
moment. A second later, the lights spring up in all the
windows, and the character of the scene is changed. The little
window would have a fresh relation to the other things in the
street, but some singular beauty in its new form would surely
appear. It must : it is inevitable. And yet it was only an acci-
dent that that light appeared when it did. Some one may have
wanted to read and found it necessary to light the gas, but the
street has nothing to do with that, nor has the little window.
All that was necessary for it to preserve its reputation was a
particular light at a particular moment behind the watery pane.
So it happened—by accident of course : a beautiful accident.