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September 15, 1965
Cold Spring

Dear Philip Leider,

Don Judd sent me a couple of indefinite and involved quotations which look like implausible swiss cheese to me. Don likes to dare sweeping conclusions which I cannot find in his work but only in his former role as critical polesmicist - what I have described to him as his inconsequential "Peter Grippe break your brushes" [[strikethrough]] vegl [[/strikethrough]] vigilante stance. Well, we each have our flow - I have my "mysticism" (Frank Stella) Frank has his strictly walled-in canvas.
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"Pink out of a corner" has not been purchased by Philip Johnson. Would you please credit him under that plate. By the way, Don wrote that Jasper Johns wants to buy a drawing from me. We were supposed to exchange work last year after my Green room closed but I couldn't catch up with him and his travel schedule (money and my work don't get together too often. Wow!)

Regards
Dan T.

[[checkmark]] P.S. Don's quotation should follow the Rilke remark I do believe that Don knows what he means in the main but its his historical - philosophical surroundings sentence which are suspicious to ludicrous. Also, unwisely, he permits no room for conjecture. That's nonsense historically -philosophically.

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