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Well, whatever she's reminded of, it is still available to you

Well, I'm not paying $42,000 for a lithograph. It's an aqua tint

You know, my daughter and I saw the original at the Chicago Art Institute when she was 14

While we were looking at it, she said, I love you, Mom, or I want to go home

You didn't ask her to repeat it? No. Legend has it there was an Abyssinian goat herd

whose flock stopped at a bush to eat some berries he'd never seen before and could have no idea

had coffee beans inside. Well, after eating hundreds of them, his flock began to exhibit behavior that could only be interpreted as enthusiastic for a good So the boy decided to put the berries in the basket and take them to his local monastery

And he told the abbot there what happened, which the abbot immediately recognised as the devil's work

and threw the berries into the fire. Well, now the whole monastery was smelling like a coffee shop

and the other monks would instinctively order something. But they can't, you see

So, they pulled the roasted beans out of the fire and put them in water

And that marked the first time that all the monks stayed awake during evening devotion

Do you notice? What? I'm interested. You're teaching me something, and I'm interested

So? This is what it looks like. Do you think that life is intended to be realism or impressionism? No

No, what do you mean no? I'm not getting into this. Why not? Because when you engage me in these sorts of conversations, you become like Lucy Van

Pelt holding out the football. And I come running up to kick it and you pull it away and I end up on my back regretting that I know you No I am just looking for your opinion We have a lovely exchange of ideas and maybe somebody will learn something

Well, of course life is realism. It's impressionism. How can it possibly be impressionism

You either realize it, or you don't. Well, I don't. Well, I don't want to talk about it. You think he's looking at her

Oh, I know he is, because, see, the newspaper's up there right in front of his face

Now he can't read from that close even with his glasses because he's got bad eyes now

And he doesn't actually know what his wife looks like anymore anyway

But he can't say that out loud because one day she might put on a new dress

and she'll say, how do I look sweetheart? and he'll say, well, don't you look beautiful on account of just because he can't see don't mean he don't know what's good for him

But the truth is, he started knowing what she really looks like 20 years ago

If you would allow me to explain this work to you please This was painted by an artist named Palmer Wilson So You know him We walked by and liked the painting so I looked him up It said he wasn very well known for much

of his career, and then he broke through with his park bench series. Very old couples sitting on

benches, and they never look at each other. Well, it's not that they don't look at each other

It's that the woman is always turned away. Is there some reason he does that? Yeah, yeah. Something

Something must have happened once. We picked out an apartment. It will be our first apartment, and it's got like nothing, but there's a brick fireplace

and over the fireplace there's a space for a painting, so we've been looking for a painting

Wouldn't you want a happy painting? This is a happy painting. No, this is not a happy painting