25. She would never have said this herself, but it was
obvious to me that she thought an artist’s opinions about anything at all were
entirely above and beyond the ideas of ordinary mortals. You may be the sort of
person who enjoys some flowers placed on a table, but Mrs. Festini was the kind
of person who “really” appreciated those very same flowers.
26. She appreciates the flower more than you do because she
really “sees” the flower. It was no use trying to reason with her; even so I
tried one time.
27. I said to her, “These policemen actually do love the
deer that they hunt and shoot. The best way to understand it is to consider the
attitude the Native Americans had to the animals they hunted. Their adoration
of wildlife reached a point of a religious intensity. The fact is, these
policeman in your class retain some of that primitive, hunter instinct.”
28. But I was wasting my words with silly explanations; all
she said was something about drinking beer in the woods and shooting down
innocent animals with high-powered rifles.
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