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beautiful fox - so lovely and unusual in color. No others arrive at such colors as Romando, though Richard delights in color also. But Romando has taken up a use of black outlines. Now who has put that hard connection into his head. I begged him not to use it on the puma which looked large and noble as first laid in - But he strung a black line all about. So before breakfast this morning I phoned the office to send a messenger to Romando to say his fox is beautiful and will he please not go on with it until I come. Arriving I find a line half around the fox and so the wall not half so fine. Smiles and hellos. You had my message? Yes but already the line was on like this - "Romando, come into the dining room and consider your pottery-makers - how fine big and mural it is - it has no line around and if it had - how it would have pinched it in!" He pointed to a tonal line - "But that is merely a darker tone of the same color - not a black outline. Wherever you need an accent like that see how well it looks and Richard's woman carrying a bowl - how well his richer accent around the gourd and [[blank]], throw up that part of the design - But imagine what a black outline would have done to it". Romando, too [[strikethrough]] rich and [[/strikethrough]] artistic not to see, to rich & noble of heard to dissent for dissenting, declared it true and that where a line is needed if is better it attune to the tone it bounds - (what a sentence!!) sleepy.
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