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ARTFORUM
667 MADISON AVENUE  NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021

MESSAGE

TO Dan Flavin
Valley View Drive
Lake Vallhalla
Cold Springs, N.Y. 10516

REPLY
DATE 10/7/[[text cut off]]

Dear Dan,

Thanks for your letter: its too late for November, which means that it couldn't be printed before December. Even worse, I am more than loathe to print it: I dont know how, or what frame of mind I could have been in at the time to allow Dennis's phrase to pass: seeing it in your letter, I felt I was seeing it for the first time (which I wasn't -- the point isn't to pretend I didn't notice it), and was stunned by my lack of sense last August or whenever it was that I let it pass. Now, to let this initial stupidity grow into a sorry cesspool by coming back with "pretty shitty" seems more than I can take, precisely because no one is more aware than I am that "some of the stuff you've been publishing lately has been 'priddie shoddie.'" Regarding the second half, while I have no doubt that Jo does indeed refer to you in the part about light belong in the ceiling, [[strikethrough]] it's [[/strikethrough]] its also true that about fifty other artists can make the same claim; on what grounds can you then ask me to "encourage her to use your name visibly"?

In your last piece for us you incorporated several letters to various people; since you have a piece scheduled for December, do you think, if you still feel strongly about the letter being published, you might work it into the piece? (You understand what I'm asking: has nothing to do with Dennis - I'm asking you to let me off the hook...)

SIGNED Phil

BY

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