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Tourists Moved Over The Piazza Like Drugged Insects On A Painted Plate.

This Is What Holidays, Travels, Vacations Are About. It Is Not Really Rest Or Even Leisure We Chase. We Strain To Renew Our Capacity For Wonder To Shock Ourselves Into Astonishment Once Again.

The Rich Plankton Of Pop Heroes And Pop Villains On Which We Americans Are Accustomed To Feed, The Daily Media Soup Of Sports Figures, Ax Murderers, Politicians, And Rock Singers, The Ever-running River Of Celebs, Heavies, And Oddballs That We Use To Spice Up Our Own Relatively Humdrum Lives Has Of Late Become A Very Watery Gruel. Where Have All The Good Guys And Bad Guys Gone? Why Does Everyone Out There Look So Gray?

The Notion That The Great Artist Requires A Great Patron Has Been Around Since The Pharaohs. That The Born Patron Also Needs An Artist To Patronize Is A Less-studied Phenomenon.

Letters Are Expectation Packaged In An Envelope.