Art critic James Elkin argues that paintings are puzzles we feel compelled to solve in order to ease our perplexities about the world in which we find ourselves as well as our uncertainties as to how it is that we found ourselves here 

   courtesy of Timothy Brooks  Vermeers Hat

puzzling paintings

to be solved 

             the idea confused him 

his experience  paintings  artwork  usually absorbed inhabited him 

he an his girlfriend viewed The Girl with the Pearl Earring at San Franciscos Legion of Honor  it was first time in nearly 30 years that Hagues Mauritshuis museum had loaned her for exhibit   

they slowly deliberately worked their way through the gallery artworks that accompanied acting as court to the enclave where she was displayed they approached asif approaching an altar sobersomber   reverent

they had viewed The Girl for more than forty minutes 

                                                        when they left they backed awayhad a difficult time taking their eyes away from her  they felt dopedmesmerised  

they carried their precious experience throughout their four hour ride home through dinner through the night an when they woke in the morning they laid in bedpropped up on pillows enjoying turning the pages of the exhibits catalogue 

speaking for himself he couldnt say or recall he thought anything in The Girls presence 

he did however appreciate Mr Elkins Mr Brooks salient impression

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1001,  Reggaefriday,  24  3. 23

https://www.famsf.org/press-room/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-dutch-paintings-from-the-mauritshuis

friend texted  :   :  I sent Inquisition reference to you when you were away .. obviously you had other things on your mind…  we need to remember those thighs in real time

  :  :  I see you did – however I was referring to our last klatch – 10March – well after I was gone – when we also drew a blank regarding the Inquisition

Makes me wonder why we’ve drawn a blank twice – probably because we were tortured to death in our past lives

I like “thighs in real time”  spell-check gone wrong? or clever?

  :  :  Yes!

  :  :  yes to which question, yahoo

  :  :  Sp err first then clever to leave it

  :  :  ah  that explains it   AI, your real wingman!  hur 

   things  thighs

he preferred thighs to thingspreferred thathing between the thighs even more

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Woudya quit your bellyachingNOno  No yare no pur . . 

. . I am! . .

. . A wannabe 

                A purist is only an attempt a try one verges on the definition of perfect perfection  It is not attainable

   Sometimes I thinkI feel I have

Think   Shoudnt you say I believe I have Theres a big gulf between thinking an believing

You always split hairs.

Theyre worthwhile splitting one shoud vie to be as accurate as possible thereby eliminating incorrect perceptions versions 

         Woudntya agree  seek precisionnot be taken out of context    Woudnt wannabe purists agree

You really drive a hard bargain.            

An I have an example

                           A nun     Coud we agree a nun seeks to be pure 

Where’s this going? 

   Please

            Coud we agree

This feels like a trap.

Paranoid

To be honestyeah.

Were talkin about a nun not you

Has nothing to do with me?

Only indirectly 

                I promise it wont hurt nothing ya havent heard before

   Heard before?

Hear me out

Okay.

I mean listen 

               Ya have a bad habit of things going in one ear an out the other

Okay okay. I’ll listen.

Im counting on it

I’m listening listening . .

. . An growin impatient

What do you want out of me? 

   Your undivided attention for a minute likely less

A nun a nun, what about the nun I’m listening.

he jumped in with both feetstruck while the iron was hot We agree a nun seeks to be pure

Yes. Fullfledged . . she’s married to God.

A bride of God yahweh

We agree.

We do 

           Your paranoia waning abating

   A little.

Good A nun a bride of God   She seeks to be pure

Yes.

I slept with a young nun

shocked eyesbugged You had sex with a nun?

Theyre human beings too 

                               We got carried away

   You fucked . . a nun?

I did

What was that like?

Like sleeping with any other women  She has the same desires same foibles as anyone

Did she remain in the church?

She did  We chalked it up to youthful indiscretion

                                                      Church believes  believes believes in forgiveness

See my point as it pertains to you

   crickets

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1234,  Thursday,  23  3. 23

today 

            https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/desantis-florida-expanding-dont-say-gay-law-rcna76136?cid=eml_mda_20230323&user_email=e4c91d00eead6d858374885584701152a02c6d873bb23bf387b4583a289e5951

yesterday 

            https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65034343?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sentences%203/22&utm_term=Sentences

   maybe homophobia anwhaever the appropriate term for dislike disrespect an disregard of LGBTQIA+ peoplephobia are a Virus tha is catching 

                                Floridas got it 

                               Ugandas got it                 

apparently American Blue states have an overwhelming immunity to Ignorance not to say they don have their pustules

1016,  Thursday,  23  3. 23

. . . then would you rather . . 

. . No

   Can you hear me out? he implored him

Yawanna beg then maybe 

Well?

Everytime ya ask me to hear you out yave got some horseshitharebrained notion ya saw read on-line 

                                                                                                          This is how bad it islemme guess                               

You think you can guess?

I think I can  said the Little Engine tha Coud 

                                                   May I               

Jesus, knock yourself out.

Ill knock you out

                 he began rubbing his hands together like a greedyfuckin merchant who jews a customerthey jawing back and forth  an then suddenlyrelents letting them think a price agreed upon  tha they bettered himNot

Would you quit with the dramatics.

Irritating

Yes.

Good  As irritating as hearing you out

That’s ru . .

. . No 

      Not when you hear whacomes out of my mouth

   Whell, let it come already.

Yare quick in the sack arent ya 

                                 Go off like a firecrackerpremature ejaculationfeeble foreplay  Goo  All about you Forget your partner woud like to cum too

What are you talking about?

Hey Say yea or nay 

                      Saynay I aint buying it

Why is this coming down to sex? 

DUH 

      Doesnt everything with me eventually boil down evolve involve sex 

Please ya must know tha bout me The earth revolves around sexnot the sun

Why you dragging your feet? Would you say?

I will 

     Your rather either or is from Quora POPs up on your smartphone anya cant resist it follow down rabbitholes  Quora is so intellectual 

By your expression Im right

   Yes.

Fine Im a good sport 

                       Whats your either or rather

shook his head like shaking off sleep Would you rather . . for lack of a better word . undergo . consume virtual reality or sensory depriva . .

. . Deprivation sensory deprivation

That was quick.

Not really

           Deprieved I woud have to contend with your inane Quora choices

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I Think I Can  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9xO98kcBU 

Tony Allen  The Same Blood  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcmEh7BDFoM

UGANDA POLITICIANS it aint the common peoplenever is 

                                                                    CAN YOU HEAR ME

Homophobic Why

Afraid a gay man is going to slip into your bedseduced by an incubus ya were wishing on a succubus star 

enjoy love as you can                                                                

   today things seemed governedterrorised by FEAR of the Other

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65034343?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sentences%203/22&utm_term=Sentences 

Steve Stills  Love the One You’re With  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZyj6GECjZ0

kuku

So you shoud understand  Life is nothing more than an expirement

his head went twitchy like a chickens eyelids fluttered Experiment. 

                                                                  You mispronounced it.

I can say experimentI didnt I meant what I said

he shrugged 

              I don’t know what that is.

You understand experiment experience Expirement  We gonna die

                                                                       It be the periodpunctuation at lifes end

An experiment asksrequires a conclusion conclusions like the nonfiction books Im reading No The End   A conclusion

Did expirement occur to you before you read this, I’m assuming, string of nonfiction?

A couplethree book in it became apparent 

                                           I dug the recognition Fiction doesnt inquiry about your conclusionfiction coud care less wha ya think ya made it to the endhad to be enjoying it

Some of us don make to the end of our expirement naturally unless murder accidents overdoses suicides are natural  I don believe they are 

                      Abruptly curtailed  not natural

Hence

Expirement?

Correct

   It is food for thought.

Yah  an take lemniscate  Is it possible its nothing more than an ouroboros tail in its mouth with a bellyache a knot in its stomach 

   I ain’t touching that. 

Coward

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Tony Allen  Tony Wood (feat. Kuku)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUljZ46ziYI

Keep it simple stupid 

   woke bastardised  who knows more about bastards than Republicants

he recalled Arkansas senator Tom Cot Ton getting out ahead of his clan framing the narrative when he brayed Obelisk of Wokeness 

now others declare 

                     "a pernicious woke agenda" former vice-president Mike Pence cat ought to wakeup  January6 insurrectionists they aint patriots wanted to hang him 

                     "an oppressive wokeawcracy" Florida governor DeSantis Ron got a little spittle on your chin 

                      but taking the cake is South Carolina senator Tim Scott Home Sweet Home of state politicians who want women to face execution if they choose to abort their baby  he remarked "woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy"  hes a black man   perhaps ahistoric

   woke is defined as “alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination”  simple 

one in five Americans who cant read at a third grade levelmaybe can be excused

the 54% of American adults ages 16 to 74 who cant read at a fifth grade level . . he was pretty sure that by fifth grade children knew the definition of woke 

                                          pretty sure              

Republicants  framing a narrative  sound like assholes  

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMrfUxwS7pM 

https://www.newsweek.com/tom-cotton-washington-monument-obelisk-wokeness-congress-1510438                                           https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/03/11/tim-scott-woke-supremacists-dons-take-vpx.cnn

absolutely choice  Bethany Mandel  wrote Stolen Youth  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9-yDAKfuF0 

Tim Scott hush your mouth  https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/544550-tim-scott-fires-back-after-criticism-for-saying-woke-supremacy-is-as-bad-as/

the telephone rang 

                  even before he got the receiver to his head he could hear his daughter What’s up, Daddy-O!

Heya baby  How are you 

What’s shakin?

The usual  You

I had a window of opportunitytakin Shermie for a walk anthought maybe you’d like to join us.

With the hills all around your place I think my walksittin on my ass will be a breeze to wha youll encounter on the hoof

Yaknow it!
            laughter pealed from her mouth into his ear

they usually spoke oncetwice a week shared emauls spelled correctly maul was apt texts bullshit about movies music current eventshe steered wide of politickles unless it was too important to let lay fallow 

                                                                                            her relationships his her work his reading writing          

So what you readinghow many?

Seveneight  You

Picked up Vonnegut, Galapagos, it’s time again, finally Fathoms, your recommendation. 

Ohshit youll dig it

Don’t know how I can’t, you know how many times you mentioned it to me while you read it?

I was obsessed

Yah. Perfect word for it.

You know how many times

No. 

     But you mentioned several times a call and in texts, emails.     

I didnt want you to miss out  The last time I was so consumed was The Matter of Everything . .

. . No.  Lemme think . . consumed by Debt, Dawn of Everything, book on pirates, the one writer, he certainly captured your imagination.

Fuckin guy arranged Occupy Wall Streetya remember that

I do not, but now that you mention it it obsessed you too . .

. . Yah  anwhile it was goin on I kept wonder who the brain trust was tha organised it  Turns out it was Graeber . .

. . That’s his name, how could he not catch your attention, grab her . .

he didnt miss tha 

                 Not grab her 

Grabber.

Not grabber

she burst out laughingwas having too much fun

R A E   G R A E brrr  like yare cold

                                       Graeber 

I walk corrected.

                   So I think the next thing that ought to come out of your mouth is . . you tell me . . . and I’ll tell you if I’m right or wrong.

The next thing out of my mouth

Yes.

I suppose  tha woudbe that the books I’m reading are concluding . . 

. . STOP! Let me.

                  I was right.

Yare gonna finish my thought for me

I believe I am, apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Awwyes  apple of my eye . .

. . Better be Dad.

Yes

      Awright  Lets see if yare rightcan finish my thought 

You be honest.

You know me to be otherwise

Yes, when you’re messing with me.  

Sometimes I gotta  lowhangin fruit babe 

                                            But I fess up 

You do, you do.

I do

 

   So you were going to say . . the books you’re reading are concluding withI get a drum roll 

Brrrrrrrrrrrr  

Concluding with conclusions . . . not with . The End. 

Shit

You’re so transparent.

Shit

It’s clever, Daddy-O, keep it up, good work.

Whell  can suppose the NUT doesnt fall far from the tree either

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Tony Allen  Ijo (Dance)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDlxOSf1dkM

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi  hmm  tempting  temptingtempting  lose an eye

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/21/pakistan-economy-politics-imran-khan/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sentences%203/21/23&utm_term=Sentences

Aerosmith Same Old Song and Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6C_nyZLQR8

certain politicians want to have it both ways 

                                               obviously theyre not all old white men

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afrobeat jam on books

What’s that? he was a huge black man standing behind him in the cashier line  What you reading?

he turned the book towards him Its called The Dawn of Everything

Subtext?

A New History of Humanity If you enjoy reading  truly humanitys history  its a must Writers are an anthropologist an an archaeologist

It’s a huge, a tome.

it tickled him he called it a tome It is Nearly sevenhunred pages without their notes an citations  Wha you reading

Reading, how do you know I read? Your book’s big and orange, kind of calls attention to itself.    

But you noticed 

                 In this line it is infrequent someone asks me about the book I have in handIm reading The cashiers an clerks do because I frequent this store

he nodded Fair. It’s called The Better Angels of Our Nature.

Ah Pinker Have you read him before

You’re familiar?

The Stuff of Thought Another is Blank Slate I own them Wha brought you to read Angels

Well, I suppose like all of us, we know what we know. I’ve decided recently that I need to know things I don’t, that’s why I picked it up.

he chuckled

              I tell my girls that the more I learn from my reading the less I know

the cashier interrupted to be paidcomplete the transaction not that they or their conversation was holding up the line

he stepped to collect his bag at the end of the counter an turning back to the man he said  Well I hope you enjoy Pinker the Angels an I must say  I dig your cap

the man pointed a big finger at it like a gun That’s home.

COMPTON

Be safe

You too man, you too.    

after New Years,  2023

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Tony Allen  Afrobeat Jam  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPIjRX0KCPk

 

   rectal ozone therapy

                       SEE!  this is one of many reasons everyday why he loves waking

he wanted to ask if thawas a thing 

but whenever he thought tha his daughter flashedup on his skull vault 

                                                                         What did I tell you?   If you wonder if it’s a thing . . it is. 

she was not gentle about it after the first time

                                                sharply  What’d I say? 

rendered him a child again 

so he Googled it 

                 “. . . Such a result agrees also with our experimental data previously performed in rabbits.”*

poor fucking rabbitsforego them theres plenty of human guinea pigs out there for a price

he knew wha he was talkinbout 

was one

         helped fund his college experience medical testing an weekly selling a pint of blood  

rectal ozone therapy has something to do about the portal vein he knew portal vein 

                                                                                     the main vessel of the portal venous system which drains blood from the gastrointestinal tract gall bladder pancreas an spleen to the liver the great scrubber

   Gwyneth

              price of trying to be an influencer is high

it seemedperhaps wha influencers may miss is tha someone must want to be influenced in order to be influenced 

he thanked Singularity an his lucky stars he wasnt a mope susceptible a consumer take your pick

 

   not tha rectal wasnt a tease

  

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/gwyneth-paltrows-ozone-therapy-fad-reckless-rcna75799?cid=eml_mda_20230321&user_email=e4c91d00eead6d858374885584701152a02c6d873bb23bf387b4583a289e5951

*  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162664/

Zappa  Camarillo Brillo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkppN14ugMo

he heard magicianbut he knew tha wasnt rightdidnt suit the conversation

                                                                               Excuse me  yasay magician 

he glared 

No ya didntdidnt think so  Logic

                                      Yasay yare a logician he cringed    Yare not 

I’m more logical than you. 

I woudnt debate tha 

                       However yashoud say your logical not a logician

Someone who is logical is . . 

. . No  no theyre not 

                       Someone logical anya are  is capable of reasoninguses reason in an orderly cogent manner  Which is you  All your toys are in a box

A logicianwhile we coud debate it the title of a student or expert in logic is ratherI contend  personality traits

                                                                                                                   I N T P

Myers-Briggs  Introverted yare not Intuitive yare not  Thinking you are Prospecting you are 

                                                                                                  Flexible thinker  you are not Yare something else but yave refused to take the test Ive shared with you emailed  numerous times

Well, no matter what you say, I like, I prefer, to call myself a logician.

Fine However make sure when you do Im not in your audience Ill come out swingingsway your audience away

Ya wont like tha 

   You wouldn’t. 

I woud

How do you think you could pull that off?

Im more charismatic than you 

                                 My maw called me a charmer   Your maw ever call you a charmer

 

   I didnt think so

Whas next on the agenda buddyboy

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Supertramp  The Logical Song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP8iUyb9Gn8

“I was never afraid until you showed up.” 

it was scripted for a character in a television show he saw

but he actually said it 

                      told her  years after his wife died 

shed similar tears fearful tears 

                                  Anyone threatens you theyll have to come through me   

   they came

and while fighting them others went around him 

                                                    he failed her

now he battles without prejudicewithout knowing without caring

he wasnt judge arbiter 

                         he battled those who were guilt the innocent who got lumped in

he beat wha moved    

                       maybe  maybeif they hadnt they woudnt have gotten hurt

his line was precise 

                      razor thin

him or them

   no question

he woudnt be afraid again

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