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...weather, they show pleasure in the mark for its own sake--Corot was a terrific scribbler at his best--and some are boldly experimental. In the 1850s Corot was among the first artists to explore the so-called cliche-verre, a way of printmaking that entailed covering a sheet of glass with opaque collodion, scratching the design through it, then placing it over photosensitized paper and exposing it to light--an early hybrid of etching and photography...
...become impossible, since I am too busy wallowing in feelings of inadequacy. For example, I have seen many amazing performances this month by fellow students; at first they make me feel as if I shouldn't have given up those saxophone lessons--until I remember that beyond reading sheet music, I am musically inept. While I wonder what I am good at, I pitch a score of 118 (triple 20, double 20 and single 18). But then I realize that darts will only...
...real changes come with developing. Magnetic codes on the film will instruct photo-processing equipment to correct for errors like insufficient light and will automatically record camera settings. Instead of messy negatives, you get back the tidy little film cartridge--negatives inside--plus a sheet of thumbnail prints to use as a guide for duplicates...
...further exasperate the situation, this breed of Yak went extinct 10 years ago during the tragic Tibetan Yak Massacre of '85. Harvard is forced to clandestinely send trusted administrators in Yak disguise to serve as bearers for the elusive bubble-sheet guru...
Apparently, there is only one man in the entire world who is qualified to feed the bubble sheets into the reader machine. And he lives on a mountain-top in Tibet. When study cards are handed in late, he must be recalled, a proposition made all the more expensive by the fact that this bubble-sheet guru refuses to travel by any means except on the back of the long-haired mountain...