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Action, task, supertask: "Action is the very basis of our art, and with it our creative work must begin." Look at quotations on ruling idea and through action, esp. in reference to arrangement of An Actor's Work.

Sense memory and Emotion memory:

Relationship between words and imagined visual images.

Subtext discussed in chapter 8 of volume two.

"Through imagination the actor can exercise a mental version of what we might now call virtual reality, wandering about the house in which the play is set and confronting specific characters."

With the exception of a single mention, most references to Ribot were omitted from the American edition of Stanislavski's books.

The process of experiencing is used to create the inner, psychological aspect of a role, endowing it with the actor's individual feelings and own personality. Stanislavski argues that this creation of an inner life should be the actor's first concern.

"If you find it hard to feel any attraction for miliary life, any feeling, enthusiasm for it, find an analogy. I would find this useful: suppose I had been forced to quit the theatre forever so that never again would I hear the bell before curtain-up, feel the backstage nerves, the excitement and expectation in the green room. If I had to say goodbye to all that in my mind, I know what feelings and experiences we would be talking about. Knowing the right colour, it would be easy for me to depict my feelings."