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[[strikethrough]] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
298th Day      68 Days to come
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its audience into admiring something because they are afraid to admit they don't understand?*
*The next stage to realism is stylization - but the next stop to abstract art would more abstract art - until it abstracted itself beyond anyone's reach. [[strikethrough]] Glass [[/strikethrough]] The quality of glass next to steel, & certain incongruous mixtures which set off a certain material or line by the difference in quality of an opposite material or line, has a reason & rhyme - & the title can be honest. You can [[strikethrough]] get [[/strikethrough]] see a garden & make an abstract design of it [[strikethrough]] & be [[/strikethrough]] that is honest & good & title it "Garden", but to title it "The best picture in the world" or "The sound that goes tick tack" is where the trouble comes in. He spoke so well about abstract art that I long to relate it in here, but have no time or memory for that, & I only wish Jay had been there. Henry as usual restored my morale which Jay had completely stolen - because he is honest & earth earthly, & his mind runs [[strikethrough]] on experience with [[/strikethrough]] along on the sound momentum of experience & close relationship with life [[strikethrough]] which as his self made [[/strikethrough]] in the sense of overcoming the struggle for existance. [[strikethrough]] makes possible. [[/strikethrough]] He has rubbed up against all classes & grades of people, & 

[[strikethrough]] SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
299th Day   20th Sunday after Trinity  67 Days to come
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overcome poverty & unhappiness through his wife's insanity, & his countries' war & post war miseries etc - whereas soft little Jay has been sheltered into an untouched state which doesn't know or [[strikethrough]] calls for no [[/strikethrough]] needs an inner criterion or sense of values. Yet Jay has brilliant possibilities - & he is so young that he may turn out all right when he stops being witty at all costs, & mentally snobbish, & trying to humiliate real people into being a frame for himself as a [[strikethrough]] shining [[/strikethrough]] triumphant picture. The frame has knocked around for years, having to fit & set off [[strikethrough]] many [[/strikethrough]] & shelter many pictures, but the picture is lost without its frame, & 9 times out of 10 one tires of it. Jay is shining brass whereas Krauss or Henry are [[strikethrough]] old [[/strikethrough]] tarnished gold - that would be Henry's differentiation. And why is Jay worth all this drivel? Why is he such fun to write about? - Because I love & hate him. There [[/strikethrough]] are [[strikethrough]] is such strong [[/strikethrough]] things the [[/strikethrough]] & rare sympathy between us in some ways, that it makes the unsympathetic differences stand