tangent on Duchamp

["Fiona Webster" <fi>]

Dan W. writes:
> Funny Fi should quote Duchamp-- while I was at LACMA I got to see one of
> those valises he made with scaled down replicas of his 'greatest hits',
> including the 'Large Glass. It shared a case with a Man Ray chess set... if
> I had one of those, I just know it would improve my game! BTW, Fi-- did you
> read the piece on Duchamp & his wife a few months back in the New Yawker?

No, I haven't read the New Yawker since it ceased being the New Yorker.  
Actually, since about 10 years before that, when the glitzy ads finally barfed 
me out for good.  I'm a big fan of "The Large Glass," though.  There's a 
cool project to put together 25 different websites each celebrating one 
feature of "The Large Glass": I have a link to it on my "outta here" 
page at http://www.oceanstar.com/links.htm if you're interested.

I tried to talk my husband into letting me hang a large poster-sized 
version of "The Large Glass" in our living room.  He looked at a 
reproduction of it for a long time, and said, "No way -- it's too 
FRUSTRATING!!"  I had to laugh.  It's *supposed* to be frustrating: 9 
bachelors who can't get to that lovely bride...

				--Fiona