Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse
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On the road again, off to the
Ideal Palace of Bodan Litnanski,

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a much visited,
much publicized place.

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This retired brickmason came
from Russia

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and started building totem towers
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made of scraps he found in dumps
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and brought back in his trailer
hooked up to his moped.

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It's solid stuff,
you know, very solid.

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I am a brickmason.
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I like dolls, they're my system.
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Dolls are characters.
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What do you think of all this?
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- He's an amateur.
- Sorry?

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He's an amateur.
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We can't stop him, we let him.
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But your husband is an artist.
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An artist, well, maybe...
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Why not?
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There's better than that.
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- What?
- Better, much better than that.

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Like Louis Pons, for instance,
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who uses junk as an inspiration.
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He draws through objects,
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he accommodates chance.
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All these objects around here
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are my dictionary,
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useless things.
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People think it's a cluster of junk.
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I see it as a cluster
of possibilities.

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Each object gives
a direction, each is a line,

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picked up here and there,
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indeed gleaned,
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and which become

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