The Notion That The Great Artist Requires

Letters Are Expectation Packaged In An Envelope.

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

Ours Is The First Society In History In Which Parents Expect To Learn From Their Children, Rather Than The Other Way Around. Such A Topsy-turvy Situation Has Come About At Least In Part Because, Unlike The Rest Of The World, We Are An Immigrant Society, And For Immigrants The Only Hope Is In The Kids.

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.

The Metabolism Of A Consumer Society Requires It Continually To Eat And Excrete, Every Day Throwing Itself Away In Plastic Bags.