Yura Zhivago considers his calling

Posted Monday night, May 25, 2020.

Detail from "Boris Beside the Baltic at Meretkule", a portrait of the young Boris Pasternak by his father Leonid Pasternak. 1910. Via Wikipedia.

But greatly as he was drawn to art and history, Yura had no difficulty in choosing a career. He considered art unsuitable as a calling, in the sense that innate gaiety or an inclination to melancholy could not be a profession…

---from “Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak.