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@@@@@I took the pill, then dialed the Scoto and got the answering machine - there wouldn't be a living person in the gallery for hours yetArtistic types aren't morning people I pushed 11 for Dario Nannuzzi's extension, and after the beep I said: "Dario, it's EdgarI've changed my mind about the Girl and Ship seriesI want to sell them after all, okay? The only caveat is that they should all go to different people, if possible I hung up and went back to bedLay there for fifteen minutes watching the overhead fan turn lazily and listening to the shells whisper beneath meThe pill was working, but I wasn't drifting off I got up again, hit redial, listened to the recorded message, then punched in Dario's 678 extension one more timeHis recorded voice invited me to leave a message at the beep"That one is still NFS And why was it NFS? Not because it was genius, although I think it was Not even because when I looked at it, it was - for me - like listening to the darkest part of my heart telling its taleIt was because I felt that something had let me live just to paint it, and that to sell it would be to deny my own life, and all the pain I had undergone to reclaim it "That one's mine, Dario," I said Then I went back to bed, and that time I slept How to Draw a Picture (VII) Remember that "seeing is believing" puts the cart before the horseArt is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mysteryAnd besides - if you don't believe what you see, who will believe your art? 679 The trouble after the treasure all had to do with beliefElizabeth was fiercely talented, but she was only a child - and with children, faith is a givenIt's part of the standard equipmentNor are children, even the talented ones (especially the talented ones), in full possession of their facultiesTheir reason still sleeps, and the sleep of reason breeds monsters Here's a picture I never painted: Identical twins in identical jumpers, except one is red, with an L on the front, and the other is blue, with a T The girls are holding hands as they run along the path that leads to Shade Bea