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@@@@@ He smiled - a trifle defensively, I thought "I don't want to think too much about art, you see I don't want to criticize itI don't want to attend symposia, listen to papers, or discuss it at cocktail parties - although sometimes in my line of work I'm forced to do all those things What I want to do is clutch my heart and fall down when I see it Wireman burst out laughing and raised both hands in the air"Yes, Lawd!" he proclaimed"I don't know if that guy out there was clutching his heart and falling down, but he surely was ready to clutch his checkbook Nannuzzi said, "Inside himself, I think he did fall down 318 "Actually, I do too," Wireman saidHe was no longer smiling Nannuzzi remained fixed on me"No talk of gimmicksWhat you are after in most of these paintings is perfectly straightforward: you're looking for a way to re-invent the most popular and hackneyed of all Florida subjects, the tropical sunsetYou've been trying to find your way past the clich? "Yes, that's pretty much itSo I copied Dal?-" Nannuzzi waved a hand"Those paintings out there are nothing like Dal?And I won't discuss schools of art with you, Edgar, or stoop to using words ending in ismYou don't belong to any school of art, because you don't know any "I know buildings," I said "Then why don't you paint buildings?" I shook my headI could have told him the thought had never crossed my mind, but it would have been closer to the truth to say it had never crossed my missing armYou're an American primitive Nothing wrong with