Six Degrees of Separation
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Or the converse - the end of life, the right
to die. Why is life, at this point in time,

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so focused upon the very beginning of life
and the very end of life?

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What about the 80 years we have to live
between those two inexorable book ends?

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And you can get all that into Cats?
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We're going to try.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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You shall.
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This is what I dreamt.
I didn't dream, so much as realise this.

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I feel so close to the paintings.
I'm not just selling, like pieces of meat.

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I remembered why I loved paintings
in the first place, what got me into this.

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I thought...
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dreamt...
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remembered...
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how easy it is for a painter
to lose a painting.

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He paints and paints,
works on a canvas for months,

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and then, one day, he loses it.
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Loses the structure, loses the sense of it.
You lose the painting.

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I remembered asking my kids'
second-grade teacher:

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"Why are all your students geniuses?"
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Look at the first grade - blotches of green
and black. The third grade - camouflage.

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But your grade, the second grade...
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Matisses, every one.
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You've made my child a Matisse.
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Let me study with you.
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Let me into the second grade.
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What is your secret?
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I don't have any secret. I just know when
to take their drawings away from them.

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I dreamt of colour.
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I dreamt of our son's pink shirt.
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I dreamt of pinks and yellows.
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And the new Van Gogh
the Museum of Modern Art got.


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