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you want for that one.” He pointed to Sunset with Seagull. “Step two is I write the check.” The little crowd laughed. Dario Nannuzzi didn’t. He beckoned to me. 309 “Excuse me,” I said to the white-haired man. “Price of poker just went up, my friend,” someone said to Gin-Blossoms, and there was laughter. Gin- Blossoms joined in, but didn’t look really amused. I noticed all this as though in a dream. Nannuzzi smiled at me, then turned to the patrons, who were still looking at nike air max 90 infrared my paintings. “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Freemantle didn’t come in to sell anything today, only for an opinion on his work. Please respect his privacy and my professional situation.” Whatever that is, I thought, bemused. “May I suggest that you browse the works on display while we step into the rear quarters for a little while? Ms. Aucoin, Mr. Brooks, and Mr. Castellano will be pleased to answer all your questions.” “My opinion is that you ought to sign this man up,” said a severe-looking woman with her graying hair drawn back into a bun nike air max turnaround and a kind of wrecked beauty still lingering on her face. There <a href="http://www.skechershoessale.com/mbt-kisumu-c-487.html"><strong>mbt kisumu</strong></a> was actually a smattering of applause. My feeling of being in a dream deepened. An ethereal young man floated toward us from the rear. Nannuzzi might have summoned him, but I was 310 damned if I knew just how. They spoke briefly, nike usa online and then the young man produced a big roll of stickers. They were ovals with the letters NFS embossed on them in silver. Nannuzzi removed one, bent toward the first painting, then hesitated and gave me a look of reproach. “These haven’t been sealed in any way.” “Uh… guess not,” I said. I was blushing again. “I don’t. nike air max 90 current .. exactly know what that is.” “Dario, what you’re dealing with here is a true American primitive,” said the severe-looking woman. “If he’s been painting longer than three years nike air max 90 , I’ll buy you dinner at Zoria’s, along with a bottle of wine.” She turned her wrecked but still almost gorgeous face to me. “When and if there’s something for you to write about, Mary,” Nannuzzi said, “I’ll call you myself.” “You’d better,” she said. “And I’m not even going to ask his name – do you see what a good girl I am?” She twiddled her fingers at me and slipped through the little crowd. “Not much need to ask,” Jack said, and of course he was right. I had signed each of the oils in the 311 lower left corner, just as neatly as I had signed cheap nike air max all invoices, work orders, and contracts in my other life: Edgar Freemantle. Nannuzzi settled for dabbing his NFS stickers on the upper righthand corners of the paintings, where they stuck up like the tabs of file-folders. Then he led Wireman and me into his office. Jack was invited but elected to stay with the pictures. In the office, Nannuzzi offered us coffee, which we declined, and water, which we accepted. I also accepted a couple of Tylenol capsules. “Who was that woman?” Wireman asked. “Mary Ire,” Nannuzzi said. “She’s a fixture on the nike air max 87 Suncoast art scene. Publishes a free culture- vulture newspaper called Boulevard. It comes out once a month during most of the year, once every two weeks during the tourist season. She lives in Tampa – in a coffin, according to some wits in this business. New local artists are her favorite thing.” “She looked extremely sharp,” Wireman said. 312 Nannuzzi shrugged. “Mary’s all right. She’s helped a lot of artists, and she’s been around forever. That makes her important in a town where we live – to a large extent – on the transient trade.” “I see,” Wireman said. I was glad someone did. “She’s a facilitator.” “More,” Nannuzzi said. “She’s a kind of docent. We like <a href="http://www.skechershoessale.com/specials.html"><strong>mbt shoes</strong></a> to keep her happy. If we can, of course.” Wireman was nodding. “There’s a nice artist-and############## economy here on nike air max 90 the west coast of Florida. Mary Ire understands it and fosters it. So if the Happy Art Galleria down the street discovers they can sell paintings of Elvis done in macaroni on velvet for ten thousand dollars a pop, Mary would” “She’d blow them out of the water,” Nannuzzi said. “Contrary to the belief of the art snobs – you can usually pick them out by their black clothes and teeny-tiny cell phones – we’re not venal.” “Got it off your chest?” Wireman asked, not quite smiling. “Almost,” he said. “All I’m saying is that Mary understands our situation. We sell good stuff, most of us, and sometimes we sell great stuff. We 313 do our best to find and develop new artists, but some of our customers are too rich for their own good. I’m thinking of fellows like Mr. Costenza out there, who was waving his checkbook around, and the ladies who come in with their dogs dyed to match their latest coats.” Nannuzzi cheap nike air max showed his teeth in a smile I was willing to bet not many of his richer clients ever saw. I was fascinated. This was another world. “Mary reviews every new show she can get to, which is most of them, and believe me, not all her reviews are raves.” “But most are?” Wireman said. “Sure, because most of the shows are good. She’d tell you very little of the stuff she sees is great, because that isn’t what tourist-track areas as a rule produce, but good? Yes. Stuff anyone can hang, then point to and say ‘I bought that’ without a nike air max usa quaver of embarrassment.” I thought Nannuzzi had just given a perfect definition of mediocrity – I had seen the principle at work in hundreds of architectural drawings – but again I kept silent. 314 “Mary shares our interest in new artists. There nike air max 97 may come a time when it would be in your interest to sit down with her, Mr. Freemantle. Prior to a showing of your work, let us say.” “Would you be interested in having such a showing here at the Scoto?” Wireman asked me. My lips nike air max 2003 were dry. I attempted to moisten them with my tongue, but that was dry, too. So I took a sip of my water and then said, “That’s getting the harm before the force.” I paused. Gave myself time. Took another sip of water. “Sorry. Cart before the horse. I came in to find out what you think, Signor Nannuzzi. You’re the expert.” He unlaced his fingers from the front of his vest and leaned forward. The squeak his chair made in the small room seemed very loud to me. But he smiled and the smile was warm. It <a href="http://www.skechershoessale.com/mbt-kisumu-c-487.html"><strong>mbt kisumu shoes</strong></a> brightened his eyes, made them compelling. I could see why he was a success when it came to selling pictures, but I don’t think he was selling just then. He reached across his desk and took my hand – the one I painted with, the only one I had left. “Mr. Freemantle, you do me honor, but my father Augustino is the Signor of our family. I am happy 315 cheap nike air max 90 to be a mister. As for your paintings, yes, they’re good. Considering how long you’ve been at work, they are very good indeed. Maybe more than good.” “What makes them good?” I asked. “If they’re good, what makes them good?” “Truth,” he said. “It shines through in every stroke.” “But most of them are only sunsets! The things I added…” I lifted my hand, then dropped it. “They’re just gimmicks.” Nannuzzi laughed. “You’ve learned such mean words! Where? Reading The New York Times art pages? Listening to Bill O’Reilly? Both?” He pointed to the ceiling. “Lightbulb? Gimmick!” He pointed to his own chest. “Pacemaker? Gimmick!” He tossed his hands in the air. The lucky devil had two to toss. “Throw out your mean words, Mr. Freemantle. Art should be a place of nike air max 97 hope, not doubt. And your doubts rise from inexperience, which is not a dishonorable thing. Listen to me. Will you listen?” “Sure,” I said. “That’s why I came.” “When I say truth, I mean nike air max 180 beauty.” 316 “John Keats,” <a href="http://www.casualphorum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1849476#1849476"><strong>UGG Boots-Putting collectively Comfort and fashion | Allindians.com</strong></a> Wireman said. “‘Ode On A Grecian Urn.’ All we know, all we need to know. An oldie but still a goodie.” Nannuzzi paid no attention. He was leaning forward over his desk and looking at me. “For me, Mr. Freemantle-” “Edgar.” “For nike air max shoes me, Edgar, that sums up what all art is for, and the only way it can be judged.” He smiled – a trifle defensively, I thought. “I don’t want to think too much about art, you see. I don’t want to criticize it. I don’t want to attend symposia, listen to papers, or discuss it at cocktail parties – although sometimes in my line of work I’m forced to do all those things. What I want to do is clutch my heart and fall down when I see it.” Wireman burst out laughing and raised both hands in the air. “Yes, Lawd!” he proclaimed. “I don’t know if that guy out there was clutching his heart nike air max light and falling down, but he surely was ready to clutch his checkbook.” Nannuzzi said, “Inside himself, I think he did fall down. I think they all did.” 317 “Actually, I do too,” Wireman said. He was no longer smiling. 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