in the mind of the reader there are these forces, sometimes inherited from very ancient times, and they may determine his response to the poetry quite independently of his conscious thinking about god, fate, and morality. nick fails to convince his family they should hold onto the workers. for the next ten years he spent little time in any one place. after 1865, he opened a studio, taking private pupils in painting. i shall die in order to live. salt and other minerals were extracted, and the land was used for farming. something that he would regret for the rest of his life. 