the shadow of your shadow

A young girl grows up - beside a lake; she loves the lake like a seagull and she’s happy and free, as a seagull. But one day, by chance a man comes, and sees her, and having nothing better to do, destroys her, like this seagull here.

Trigorin from Chekhov’s The Seagull (via jellysnack)

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Anton Chekhov reading The Seagull to the company of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899.