Shortly after Anton Chekhov's death in 1904, his fellow writer Maxim Gorky noted: «All those who found themselves in his company
inevitably felt the desire to be simpler, more honest, more themselves.»
Furthermore, if by way of preparation for the meeting, some preliminary reading has been done by the participants, if the leader lets them
feel that they are not just «lecture - fodder» but part of the whole enterprise, and if there is insistence on something more than being at the «receiving - end,» the discussion and the questions and the
desire for further exploration will almost
inevitably follow.