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this laconic, light-footed and remarkably funny book

[...] the desire to turn oneself into a multiple or machine is also a desire to be liberated from human feeling, human need, which is to say the need to be cherished or loved. ‘Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?’ he told Time in 1963.

Jasper Johns had produced his first encaustic, messy, painterly American flag in 1954

Sometimes as I walked, roaming under the stanchions of the Williamsburg Bridge

the Hoppers call it Nighthawks, after the beaked profile of the woman’s saturnine companion