"Museum Piece" by Richard Wilbur (poetry reading)

[Ahavati1]

It makes me curious about the relationship between Degas and El Greco...

[SpokenVerse]

However passionate it was, the 300 year age difference must have had a negative effect (I'm sorry, British humour is essentially irony. This is the one difference distinguishes our national persona from Americans and is the chief impediment to communication between our nations.)

[Ahavati1]

Aha,ha.ha. I meant what could possibly move him to put a painting by his bed to hang his pants on? Something read? Bad painting? Or,good in that would be the first thing he saw in the morning? Reminder? I don't know, but wonder as a I now wander.(How well I remember that British humour more than you think, as it gets me in trouble more oft than not over here! But, being out of touch for so long also gets me in trouble over there. I'm doomed to wander on the Island of Misfit Humour for eternity.)

[chopin65]

I thought it was a fear of chaos. For example, John Cleese speaks of the Englishman's fear of public scenes, of being private in public.

[souljaEXVOTO]

... and on his deathbed it was said that he reached for and touched his nurse, who paused at her duties so he could study the light on her arm.

He worked until just a few breaths shy of his death.