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- How are you? Hi.
- Good. That's funny. We were talking...
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We're gonna go to
the Shakespeare In The Park thing.
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Oh, yeah, right. I wanna do that.
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Oh, this is my friend.
Mary Wilke, Isaac Davis and Tracy.
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- How do you do?
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
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You, too.
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- Hello.
- Hi.
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We were downstairs.
We saw the photography exhibition.
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- Absolutely incredible.
- It's really good.
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Really?
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- The photographs downstairs?
- Yes.
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- Great. Absolutely great. Did you?
- No, I really felt it was very derivative.
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To me it looked like it was straight out of
Diane Arbus, but it had none of the wit.
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Well, we didn't like it
as much as the Plexiglas sculpture.
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You liked the Plexiglas?
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- You didn't like the Plexiglas either?
- Ah, that's interesting. Nah, no...
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It was a lot better than
that... that steel cube. Did you see it?
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- Oh, yeah. That was the worst.
- Now that was brilliant to me.
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- The cube was brilliant?
- Yes.
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To me it was very textural.
You know what I mean?
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It was perfectly integrated and it had a...
a marvellous kind of negative capability.
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The rest of the stuff was bullshit.
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- You wanna see the Sol Lewitt?
- Sure. That'd be fun.
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You wanna see that?
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He opens at the Modern soon. I was
gonna do a piece on Sol for Insights.
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Do you know that magazine?
It's a little magazine.
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They're such schmucks up there.
Really mired in Thirties radicalism.
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- What do you do, Tracy?
- I go to high school.
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Oh, really. Really. Somewhere Nabokov
is smiling, if you know what I mean.
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LeWitt is overrated. In fact,
he may be a candidate for the academy.
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Right!
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Mary and I have invented the Academy
of the Overrated for such notables as
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- Gustav Mahler,
- Isak Dinesen and Carl Jung.
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- Scott Fitzgerald.
- Lenny Bruce. Can't forget him, can we?
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- How about Norman Mailer?
- I think those people are all terrific.
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- Who was that guy you had?
- I didn't. It was yours. Heinrich B?I.