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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
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A couple of corrections, one fiscal and one testicular, have been sent in by readers: 1.] A reader with a background in the subject suggests that Florida is not in fact a rich state [as UD recently argued: see 10/10/04], but rather a poor state with wealthy, tax-averse immigrants. UD had never thought of it that way. Sounds right. 2.] Another reader corrects not UD but the already besieged Ms. Alquilar, l'artiste whose library mural misspellings have excited comment [see UD, 10/07/04 and 10/10/04]. Alquilar, in arguing that no one with a true aesthetic disposition notices prosaic artists' errors like misspellings, compares such pickiness to someone "look[ing] at Michelangelo's David" and "point[ing] out that one [testicle] is lower than the other." Citing a "kind urologist" he knows, one of UD's readers points out that testicular asymmetry is not an artistic error but a human reality. Indeed, far from being any sort of mistake, it is (for various reasons UD won't go into here) apparently one of the Creator's cleverest ideas. |