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know, those gashes. So once I got involved in a furious For instance, I will never forget when I was present at a
row, and nearly found myself in a duel. gathering of scientists and students in, well, about 1911
Up to the war it was this way: I knew it had to be or 1912—one of the professors was talking of Einstein's
sculpture, but it had to be a totally different sculpture. theory. I myself was then studying physics. There was a
And it had to express a new way of looking at the sharp discussion. I grasped the idea, though I couldn't
universe. A new feeling was already going through the say exactly what it was about. But there was an elation in
universities and among the intellectuals. There was a the air.
feeling of time and space, a movement in men's minds. Then the war came. This was very salutary for me. My

Head 1916
Architectural steel
Height 36 in.