Standing · 10 March 2002
‘He’ was a sensitive reader, almost too delicate to withstand the commands and admonitions of punctuation.
What Duchamp did with the urinal no longer surprises me, what surprises me is the idea that they had urinals back then.
Sometimes, when a beautiful Italian girl wanders into an empty gallery I fantasize about walking over and kissing her on the neck. When she turned around and saw that I was a guard, I would straighten up and whisper ‘no kissing allowed.’
—from ‘Clip-On Tie: The Diary of a New York Art Museum Security Guard’ by David Berman
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