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the dangerousness of cumpulsive truth tellers, I was a little surprised, because I guess I thought everybody more less acted the way I did - lie for conscience & sociability, & tell the truth only when it really counted.

One last Clem bit because it ties in with some things about the shaped canvas that may not have been so clear in the last note. There was one picture in the '66 ptg's that Clem voiced an interest in. It was the most arbitrary & weird picture in the group. I forget the title, but it was a big vertical picture with a bulge on the right hand side. I liked it, too, but I didn't know what to do with it, so I filed it away. But, I didn't ask Clem anything because I knew that he didn't know anything, and was just going with the ploy of "spotting" the difficult picture.

The same thing happened with Michael when he gave me his "image" take on the 1st Polish ptgs. This was nothing more than saying abstraction, i.e. modernist abstraction, could only be