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To
Understand
"I should
like to do portraits which will appear as revelations to people
in a hundred years time."
Vincent Van Gogh
Elizabeth and I stand
in line at the National Gallery, holding our 12:10 p.m. tickets
to the Van Gogh exhibit. We each have a notebook and we're planning
our approach. She wants to go it alone, wander around the exhibit
at her pace, not mine, and sketch as she roams. I want to linger
for long periods with the paintings that are most magnetic to
me, recording thoughts I hope will later evoke images of the paintings.
I want to guard against forgetting. I want to understand Van Gogh.
I want Elizabeth to understand Van Gogh.
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