| I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. But for some reason I'm always broke. |





The other way to deal with it, however, is to examine what makes it art. To discuss it, allow it to make you think, and "listen to the notes that are not being played." This takes more effort, so fewer people do it, but in the end it's much more rewarding. Songs and stories provide lifelong inspiration. Movies continue to entertain even after the house lights come back up. Pictures and sculptures become gateways to higher plateaus.
To me, I'd rather take the greater effort and get the really big treasure that people are too lazy to dig for.
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