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From: goodrum@unc.UUCP (Cloyd Goodrum)
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Subject: A Treatise On Painting
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 21:08:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 21:08:56 1985
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Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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		A TREATISE ON PAINTING

	I was walking down Eucalyptus Avenue towards the Organic Cheese
Shop, when at the corner of Kudzu Street I encountered a gentleman who
was wearing dark glasses, sporting a red-tipped cane, and was painting a picture
of a giraffe. I knew he was not merely feigning blindness because he had
inadverdently painted one pink and one green tennis shoe on the giraffe's
hind feet.
	When I stopped to watch, he said to me " I can tell by the way that
you breath that you are a generous man. Surely you would help a starving
artist by purchasing this Paris Cafe Scene for only a thousand dollars."
	" But I don't have a thousand dollars," I said to him. " And besides,
that's not a Paris Cafe Scene. It's a giraffe with mismatched tennis shoes!!"
	" You blind fool!" he cried in a rage, " Don't you know what Picasso
said? 'Art is a lie that helps us to see the truth more clearly' "
	Then, to prove his point, he produced a can of lye which he splashed
across my eyes. At that moment I realized what a liar Picasso was because
things suddenly became very opaque.