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right to expect an artist who has to convey a certain image through the representation of a fact to use a method similar to the one I used in assimilating those streets.
We have taken the example of a dial iand shown what process leads to the representation of the image of time. To create an image, works of art have to resort to a similar method.
Let us confine ourselves to the clock.
In the case of Vronsky, the geometrical figure of the clock hands did not call to life the image of time. But there are cases when it is important not so much to realize the astronomical fact of midnight as to relive this hour in all the associations and feelings an author may desire to evoke. This can be the exciting hour of a tryst, the hour of death, the hour of elopement — all this is much more important than a mere indication that it is midnight.
In such cases, the image of midnight, the fateful hour filled with special purport, is perceived through the representation of twelve strokes.
Here is an illustrative example, taken from Maupassant's Bel ami. It has the additional merit of employing sound. Its still greater merit lies in that, although it is of a purely montage nature, it is rightly treated as a piece of everyday life.
The scene describes Georges Duroy (who already spells his name Du Roy) waiting in a fiacre for Suzanne who has agreed to elope with him at midnight.
Midnight here is least of all an astronomical hour; it is the hour Which is to decide all (or almost all) that is at stake: "It is all over. It is a failure. She won't come."
And this is how Maupassant impresses on the reader's consciousness and feelings the image of this hour, how he emphasizes its significance, as contrasted to the description of the corresponding time of night.
"He went out towards eleven o'clock, wandered about some time, took a cab and had it drawn up in the Place de la Concorde, by the Ministry of Marine.
"From time to time he struck a match to see the time by his watch. When he saw midnight approaching his impatience became feverish. Every moment he thrust his head out of the window to look.
"A distant clock struck twelve, then another nearer, then two to
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