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Gosh, I needed to read this. I felt your words in the back of my throat. Am saving to return to again and again.

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I know that back of the throat feeling. I have it all the time when I'm writing a novel. So pleased it helped. Now off you go and break your heart.

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Jenny Holzer’s Truisms - Thanks for the immersion.

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If you're ever in the Tate Modern, there's a great wall with her series of Inflammatory Essays pasted to it, right on the fourth floor of the Blavatnik building (I think). Well worth a look, she's so funny.

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My thought is that replying to a reply may be bad form as there is no doubt a preciousness in your minutes that is in hours to us.

I've been scrubbing hard at an earlier thought... ((a bit like Jon Voight's character when he gives out advice in testing circumstances to a young, fellow prison escapee (as played by Eric Roberts) in the Film 'Runaway Train' as to what he should do if he ever becomes free))...

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The 'Strapline' PROTECT ME . . . FROM WHAT I WANT briefly appears in the 1990 Film 'Catchfire' (directed by Dennis Hopper), on a billboard advert for lipstick, I took a quick picture when watching last Spring as I was intrigued and brought to a halt by the simplicity and ringing truth.

It seems that the storyline luxuriates in a Jenny Holzer framing and I only know that from your highlighting! :)

(Never been to the Tate Modern but will certainly now have to go even as an aging, loping, hill farmer who only went to the V&A and Tate Britain for the first time in December.

William Eggleston's photographs in the former stood out! esp. Untitled (Memphis) 1971.)

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