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No I never graduated. The £ crashed against the $ and my formal education ended abruptly. I had to return to the UK and get a job as a shop assistant in a bloody clothes shop in Barnsley!
You're not far wrong Faust, but it was the other one of my weaknesses, pretty girls. I fell in love with a Minnesotan girl, and the only way to go live in Minnesota was to go to college. So being the arrogant fool that I am, I applied to the best college that I could find (and I believe that MCAD was pretty high in the rankings at the time) and I got in. The girl disappeared, as they tend to, but I decided that there may be a future in this US art thing... Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Jasper Johns... The shock of the new... from Bauhaus to our house! So I hung around for a while.
I am totally going to use this.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
yes, i got that hobo....certainly did not think you were nicking.
I thought Faust might like to know about the book, that's all.
Not sure he'd like to read it though, AFAIK Wolfe talked out of his ass, just like when he attempted to challenge the modern art world or describe the college experience.
Actualy, I meant the Tom Wolfe book was a good beginners book. It's a quick read which gives good referance (dates, people, places). Shock of the New is way more advanced academic stuff, interesting though.
I really didn't mean to get into this 'up yer arse' I've read more books than you shit. They just happened to be 2 books that I read 20 years ago, when I was at MCAD, and actually remembered.
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." — Oscar Wilde
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