WRITE BOOK AT THE WRITE TIME for (me! ) and monica dawn!
i had to stop everything to run upstairs and post this. -so utterly perfect & timely considering our upcoming diapers to diapers exhibitstranger in a strange land, soft cover, page 323:
"Attend me, Ben. Anybody can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart... no matter what the merciless hours have done. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me -- but it does to them. Look at her!"
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i must frame this and include it in our exhibit -must!
thank you heinlein!
p.s. -this is what i mean about how the write book always lands in my hands at the write time.
thanks dad!
amen & amen
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Original post 04/10/2010
Repost today inspired by my squidmann: leonardstegmann.blogspot.com
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