Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Albrecht Durer, and a veterinarian walk into a bar. Magritte says to Dali, "see that cat over there?" "You mean the one staring in at us?" "Next to the dog, yes. I think I'd like to paint her." Durer, not to be outdone, butts in, "Gentlemen, that won't do at all." Scoffs under his breath, . This is a most dull tableau. You need fire, and skies opening up over the dog, with---" Magritte responds,"Oh, not that again, Durer, the last time I listened to you and put that in I got a call from the Inquisition!" Dali says, "Rene, aren't you mixing up your times and such, I mean the Inquisition was so 12th century, and---" "Ha! Dali want's to correct me about TIME?!?!" He turns to the bartender, "Have you seen his watches and sundials!!?? And he want's to lecture me about that!" The veterinarian, whose quite bored with his companion's banter saunters over to a dark corner of the bar where a man, who happens to be M.C. Escher, is sitting at a workbench busy with a lithograph. The veterinarian asks him, "Is that a?" "Cat, yes. Two cats actually. .... .... And a dog.... And a staircase below into THE GREAT UNKNOWN VOID." The veterinarian, a bit uncomfortable, but most reluctant to return to the bar, asks, "Is that white cat flying?" "Yes, he is transcending the void." The vet pauses, considering his next move. "Excuse me for saying, but don't you think at least a modicum of realism or structure would avoid, well, having your work compared to ...?" He gestures over his shoulder to Dali, Magritte and Durer. Escher thinks for a moment. Then his face lights up, "A railing! Brilliant! Just the thing." A day later it was finished. But where to send this marvel of Art, containing subtle humor, beauty, harmony, delight, and a perfect balance of the absurd and the real? The vet says, "Well, I know this guy in Indianapolis..."
Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Albrecht Durer, and a veterinarian walk into a bar. Magritte says to Dali, "see that cat over there?" "You mean the one staring in at us?" "Next to the dog, yes. I think I'd like to paint her." Durer, not to be outdone, butts in, "Gentlemen, that won't do at all." Scoffs under his breath, . This is a most dull tableau. You need fire, and skies opening up over the dog, with---" Magritte responds,"Oh, not that again, Durer, the last time I listened to you and put that in I got a call from the Inquisition!" Dali says, "Rene, aren't you mixing up your times and such, I mean the Inquisition was so 12th century, and---" "Ha! Dali want's to correct me about TIME?!?!" He turns to the bartender, "Have you seen his watches and sundials!!?? And he want's to lecture me about that!" The veterinarian, whose quite bored with his companion's banter saunters over to a dark corner of the bar where a man, who happens to be M.C. Escher, is sitting at a workbench busy with a lithograph. The veterinarian asks him, "Is that a?" "Cat, yes. Two cats actually. .... .... And a dog.... And a staircase below into THE GREAT UNKNOWN VOID." The veterinarian, a bit uncomfortable, but most reluctant to return to the bar, asks, "Is that white cat flying?" "Yes, he is transcending the void." The vet pauses, considering his next move. "Excuse me for saying, but don't you think at least a modicum of realism or structure would avoid, well, having your work compared to ...?" He gestures over his shoulder to Dali, Magritte and Durer. Escher thinks for a moment. Then his face lights up, "A railing! Brilliant! Just the thing." A day later it was finished. But where to send this marvel of Art, containing subtle humor, beauty, harmony, delight, and a perfect balance of the absurd and the real? The vet says, "Well, I know this guy in Indianapolis..."
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