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defense mechanism. It's so much easier to lie down here, and take pot shots at those puppets, than it is to get down to it, and start all over again to try to make something out of nothing.

The point of bringing up Clem's remark & Michael's take on the Polish pictures is that I want to say something about the shaped-canvas business, and I'm finding it very hard to get across. Try this: I saw something in that least coherent '66 picture, let it drop because I wasn't sure what was going on, and then immediately turned to the protractor pictures for stability, then found this (the stability) to be wanting, felt compelled to go back and make good on the shaped canvas & chose the most arbitrary & all out linear, interlocking mode as a method of attack. It wouldn't seem too far out to see this as being triggered by the take on '66 ptg. I couldn't handle. Now I'm working from a particular, difficult part of the 66 ptgs that interested me & obviously I'm working from a