Jim was reading Middlemarch. On the spine of his Middlemarch was a sticker from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I believe it was from Aug 11. I feel happy knowing Jim brought his Middlemarch to the Met. I like Jim and Middlemarch and things that get stuck on books. I feel less upset about the Met going from colorful metal pins to transient paper stickers. One advantage of those stickers, I suppose, is that they can get stuck on books one brings to the Met, perhaps to read in transit on those horribly crowded 6 trains… Those pretty metal pins don’t get stuck on books. You can try… but they fall off. Maybe I could’ve tried affixing the pins with artist tape. I love holding things together with artist tape… they remind me of those expensive colorful tapes in molecular biology labs. I love molecular biology and running gels. I do miss those days somewhat but I am an artist and an aspiring lawyer now. So there’s that.
Jim read Middlemarch when I was reading Moby Dick. I am still reading Moby Dick. When I go back to studio 1 & 2 in two weeks, I hope to be reading a different book, maybe Ender’s Game finally. And I hope Jim will tell me about the biography he started about that quirky physicist who discovered and named quirks.
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