4800. She did not really think that
the ladder was a piece in a show, but children of artists have a remarkable
amount of disrespect for art. Sometimes they have no interest in art at all.
4801. I think art aggravates them,
but they are drawn into it nonetheless. Who can resist such banter? She
continued, "It's like something I've seen by Kounellis." I was
thinking of some way to reply but she went off to talk to some one else.
4802. This then was the beginning
of my illness, a confusion of perception. It expressed itself at first as an
inability to distinguish what is and what is not art: an inability to separate
the art from its immediate surroundings, and everything becomes elevated to the
same exact degree of importance.
4803. The presence of my symptoms
of Stendhal's Syndrome existed in me in a state of incubation for some time,
and would only surface when I had been looking at art for too long -- for
example, after spending an entire day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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