[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:35:53 +0900
Very nice, indeed. I fondly recall the dentist, an Iranian woman, whom I
consulted last summer. The ceiling above the dental chair was decorated with
dozens of buttons promoting various causes or just for fun. It made lying back
in the chair much more fun.
John
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On 2012/04/02, at 3:26, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Lying on your back waiting for your last breath to come, what will you be
> contemplating?
> Why, the ceiling of course,
> and how boring ceilings are.
> Oh look, a crack, someone call the Discovery Channel.
> Art is designed chiefly to appeal to the eyes of those who are still
> vertical.
> When we decorate ceilings, we choose banqueting rooms and churches, places
> where gawping is somewhat infra dig.
> This is wrong.
> Why not put such paintings up where people can enjoy?
> Eyes on the real thing, a library of canvases that tour hospital corridors?
> Better, surely, than lying there wondering if it's actually light outside,
> and who is doing laundry.
>
>
>
> In another life I might have concentrated on histories of the French
> Resistance,
> written light verse,
> had some published,
> three volumes I think,
> gathering dust on someone's shelves:
> absolute proof of an existence,
> an essence,
> which had more fun than Sartre.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland,
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