Our younger brother Walt was a great bent-pin fisherman as a small boy, and for his ninth or tenth birthday he received a poem from Seymourone of the major delights of his life, I believeabout a little rich boy who catches a lafayette in the Hudson River, experiences a fierce pain in his own lower lip on reeling him in, then dismisses the matter from his mind, only to discover when he is home and the still-alive fish has been given the run of the bathtub that he, the fish, is wearing a blue serge cap with the same school insignia over the peak as the boys own
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Cite the most famous photograph taken during the Spanish Civil War, the Republican soldier shot by Robert Capas camera at the same moment he is hit by an enemy bullet, and virtually everyone who has heard of that war can summon to mind the grainy black-and-white image of a man in a white shirt with rolled-up sleeves collapsing backward on a hillock, his right arm flung behind him as his rifle leaves his gripabout to fall, dead, onto his own shadow
An artist, innovator, and self-described retro-geek from Winston-Salem saw a way to bring original art to the masses with these old machines, at an affordable price, and the Art-o-mat was born
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