The Door in the Floor
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''especially because of everything
that might be under the door in the floor.

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''And then she thought, 'Why not?
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''l'll just tell him not to open
the door in the floor.'

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''Yet the little boy...
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''still didn't know
if he wanted to be born...

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''into a world where there was
a door in the floor.

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''But there were some beautiful things
in the woods,

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''on the island and in the lake.
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'''Why not take a chance?’ he thought.
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''And so the little boy was born
and he was happy,

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''and his mommy was happy again too.
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''Although she told the boy...
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''at least once every day,
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'''Don't ever, not ever,
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'''never, never, never...
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''open the door in the floor.'
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''But, of course, he was only a little boy.
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''If you were that little boy,
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wouldn't you want to open
that door in the floor?''

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The publisher thinks the drawings are too
rudimentary and there are too few of them.

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But, um, l'm just
an entertainer of children,

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and l like to draw.
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Nudes, uh-- Nudes are a requisite
fundamental exercise for anyone who draws,

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like-- like landscapes.
So you do landscapes too?

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No. Long island’s too flat.
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You don't prefer to use
professional models?

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lf nakedness-- l mean, the feeling of
nakedness-- is what a nude must convey,

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well, there's no nakedness that compares to what it feels
like to be naked in front of someone for the first time.


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