One character in this play laments that it is easy to "be a philosopher on paper" but it is "difficult in real life."
One character in this play laments that it is easy to "be a philosopher on paper" but it is "difficult in real life." People in this work play the card game lotto, and during one match, a man declares that a bottle of ether has exploded to conceal heard gunshots. The red eyes of Satan hang across a lake in a play within this play that uses fumes of sulfur for artistic effect. Pyotr Sorin advises the son of Irina to write a novel based on Sorin's life, The Man Who Wished. That son murders an animal and lays it at a woman's feet. For 10 points, name this play where Nina's love for the novelist Trigorin besets Konstantin Treplev's suicide, an Anton Chekov work titled after 
One character in this play laments that it is easy to "be a philosopher on paper" but it is "difficult in real life."
The Seagull [or Chayka]