Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Wassily Kandinsky Several Circles painting

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But to return to the question of my hats ...”
“I tell you what. Why don’t you buy a nice quiet house in the country. I shall want somewhere to stay while this baby is born.”
There was the rub. It was precisely this fear that had been working in my mind for days, the fear of making myself a sitting shot to the world. It lay at the root of the problem of privacy; the choice which torments to the verge of mania, between perpetual flight and perpetual siege; and the unresolved universal paradox of losing things in order to find them.
“Surely that is odd advice from a communist?”
Roger became suddenly wary; he had been caught and challenged in loose talk. “Ideally, of course, it would be,” he said. “But I daresay that in practice, for the first generation, we shall allow a certain amount of private property where its value is purely sentimental. Anyway, any you make now is bound to be temporary. That’s why I feel no repugnance about living on Lucy’s money ...” Marxist ethics kept him talking until we had finished luncheon. Over the he referred to Ingres as a “bourgeois” painter. When he left me I sat for some time in the leather armchair finishing my cigar. The club was emptying

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Wassily Kandinsky Several Circles painting"