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...that memory, he painted them, the fried eggs of his dream, in a form as compact as a concerto?a form that leaves upon the mind of the beholder a sensation as definite as that caused by a series of musical chords. They smile down forever from his rich canvas???the Cosmic Egg cooked at last, the fried ova of eternity. This celebrated picture has been seen before in Manhattan. It was exhibited there again last week at the opening of the trinational exhibition of the painting and sculpture of France, England and the U. S. assembled...
...reason: to rebuke village prurience. Brenda's reason: Mattocks still needed her. Result: Mattocks improved and the prurience intensified. He began a canvas of great promise and a village gossip sent Wing an anonymous note, worded in newspaper clippings, that mentioned "adultery", "abominable lover", "disgusting wickedness". Mattocks finished his canvas???Brenda translated into landscape, unquestionably a masterpiece; and village roughs smashed it, flinging him into a creek as revenge for a fictitious attempt upon a girl...
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