You have a lot of art on your walls.

Thank you

Your collection is varied, photographs, photographs that I thought were paintings, oils, watercolours, newspaper frontpages.

I appreciate you acknowledge News as art

Two have fingerprint smudges on them.

Yes.

Yours?

One South Viets Surrender Kennedy Slain are my Maws Yare perceptive

Thank you, all your pieces are captivating, they're not just wallhangings, decorative.

Thatd be a wastehuh

Yes. Some people hang art, others hang decorations . . his voice trailed off

Not that theres anything wrong with that  you were going to say

Yes. I was.

It goes without saying  he bellylaughed 

                                          I love that line  because we always say it

That’s true, very true, it begs to be said.

A mighty cute beggar I cant resist 

                                    However you did

I didn’t only because you stepped on my lines, were reading ahead from the script.

Yah  Sorry about that chief

Get Smart.

Ah  picks up on allusionscaught it on re-runshuh  I knew I liked you despite your lousy taste in professional football teamsthe 49ers  Christ

You ought to speak, da Bears.

I have a reason

Let’s hear your excuse.

No  Reason   I have a reasonI was born in Chicago

I was born in Califor . .

. . Though not San Francisco

I submit, in California, any California team is legitimate.

So youd allow born in Chicago is possibly more than legit

Where you going with this?

Did you just it goes without saying  me

 

I suppose I did.

Fine This is going to my reason for being a Bears fan all my lifeI was watching them at my uncles knees between their hands at the coffee tabletheir sweating cans of beer cigarettes and cigars smouldering in big glass ashtrays

Very descriptive; on with it.

Every child born in Chicago is inoculated made a Bears fan It happens in states back East Never did catch on much west of the Mississippi though there are pocketsusually college teams Say the Sooners Although prevalent in Texas even for high school teams

 

You’re so full of shit.

Nah he pulled his short sleeve up on his left arm and showed him where he scarred he didnt tell him it was DPThe wouldnt have known  DPT vaccinations were discontinued before he was born

Well, shit, that looks like that hurt.

Wouldnt know I was young 

                               Show me your 49ers scar

he watched expressions tumble under the skin of his facehe was trying to figure out if he was being serious or not

So which pieces on the wall attracted you attention the most

My favorites?

Favourites  Favourite

he walked over to a black narrowframed small painting at the head of the hall leading to the bath and bedrooms  it was executed in red and blue oil stabbed couple of time with purple 

                                                                  This one intrigues me, and I suppose being intrigued might make it a favourite; you seem drawn to abstracts.

Yes

Do you know the story behind the painting?

I do Thats Tajs painting

You knew the artist?

In a manner of speaking 

In a manner of speaking, how do you mean? Seems either you did or didn’t.

Taj was an elephant She died about seven years back My eldest daughter was an elephant trainershe knew Taj I knew Taj only from the times I visited the animal park where my daughter worked with her

She painted it in 2003 when she was 64

                                          What does it look like to you

I don’t know that I see anything in it.

Yare perceptive

I’m on the spot, what do you see?

When I tell you youll kick yourself Its I think as plain as the nose on your face

Do tell.

The red oil top to bottom offset right Im giving you a hint

he looked hard again his expressions mixing under his skin 

                                                                I don’t see.

Do you see how the paint separates near the bottom in two  

                                                              Another hint

he was upsetting him with his hints Would you just please say? I don’t like this hinting game.

Sorry I do apologise On rare occasion people have seen it

It’s an abstract, I’m not good with abstract; I prefer figurative pieces, landscapes, you have those too.

I do Although you werent drawn to them as much as Tajs

Yes. That is true.   Would you say what you see?

Of course The red figure can you see it as a figure the earsthe eyes – he pointed to them – the short armsthe longer legs  the trunk

Oh my God.

You see

I do. A self-portrait. Taj, standing erect, as a human being. The purple . . elongations . her tusks . . shes shed.

You see

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