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Weekly Contest #354
I am looking at a beautiful painting in the gallery. The painting I am looking at in the gallery is beautiful. I am in the gallery. I am looking at a painting. It is beautiful.I’m sorry, but those words don’t even begin to do it justice. When I first saw the picture, some hours ago, I was so stunned by its beauty that I had to sit down and stare at it with my mouth open in awe!How can somebody create on canvas the feel, the sensation, the reality of silk, and yet next to it using the same substances create the texture of velvet, of skin, of ...
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A FRIESIAN COW IN REPOSE AND ASSOCIATED QUESTIONS by Jeff Sutton Last February at about eight o’clock in the morning, I was on a train returning from somewhere or other, having spent the weekend searching for a man called Tom who could lend me his long-handled scythe. It had been a fruitless exercise. The train carriage was almost empty except for two elderly gentlemen who were not sitting together. Perhaps they had argued, perhaps they had never met, I couldn’t tell from where I was sitting. At the next stop, a woman got on and slowly ...
WATCHING PAINT DRY by Jeff Sutton I look at the wallpaper. I stare at the wallpaper. My eyes burn into the very heart of it: into the structure of it: even down to its atomic level. I picture the gaps between the molecules and wonder how they will look an hour from now. The heavy coat of paint I have applied to the wall will eventually find its way between the molecules of the paper, then settle and dry. It is hard to think of paper as being “solid”; it’s only a few microns thick. When wallpaper is wet you can very easily poke your fin...
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