amateur painters

Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:19:18 +0100 

    Ed has brilliantly identified a genre which I'd not 
    previously noticed, namely: that '... usual crap that 
    is hung in the offices of doctors, real estate agents, 
    and suburban banks ...' 

    For a long time I've enlivened the walls of my waiting 
    room & office with specimens of my own oeuvre - 
    & was always gratified that so many patients had tried 
    to make me offers for them.  I realise now, sadly, 
    that what they were trying to do all along was buy 
    me off in my old age into some activity where I should 
    be less likely to damage the innocent lunatics of the town.

    Or could it be that the works themselves are now 
    acquiring the same kind of louche value as those 
    of my predecessor from Linz?

    Incidentally, why all this obligatory denunciation 
    of the Fuhrer?  Surely our horror at his works can 
    be taken for granted.  Perhaps it's what we Freudians call 
    a reaction formation against the strangely irresistable 
    fascination he still holds for so many of us.  All the talk 
    in the world about the banality of evil cannot really 
    defuse the distasteful fact that he remains a jolly interesting 
    chap.

    Scottie B.