} I'm not sure that *I* particularly like the surrealist complement
} generator. Eye sockets? Oncogenic delights? At least it doesn't involve
} spleens, like that guy in the U.P. is constantly talking about.
}
} Anyway, good question. Glad you asked. Since I'm feeling lazy, however,
} I'm not going to answer it. Instead (surprise!) I'm going to get
} someone else to answer it.
}
} [POOF!]
}
} [An elderly man in a tweed jacket with leather patches appears in a
} puff of smoke.]
}
} ORACLE: I am the great Internet Oracle! You, William Westerforce, are
} an art critic that I have summoned here to answer a simple queston.
}
} WESTERFORCE: I hope that "poof" business wasn't meant to imply...
}
} O: No, no, not at all. Now, the question at hand is, what it have been
} like if Van Gogh had painted the melting watch paintings instead of
} Salvador Dali?
}
} W: Hmm... Good question...
}
} O: [smirks] Thank you.
}
} W: Probably something like screaming melting watches with their ears
} cut off.
}
} O: [peers closely] You haven't been sampling the surrealist complement
} generator, have you?
}
} W: What on earth is that?
}
} O: Never mind. Thank you for your help.
}
} [POOF!]
}
} VOICE: And watch that "poof" stuff!
}
} And there you have it, supplicant. Screaming melting watches with their
} ears cut off. The National Endowment for the Arts would probably have
} scrambled like mad to fund it, too.
}
} You owe the Oracle Fragonard's "A Girl Reading". The original.
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