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An elevating discussion
Mike McCulloch Started conversation Jun 27, 2005
A working man meets an avant garde artist in a lift.
Man: Hullo. I recognise you. Now what in blazes is your name?
Art: Cytra Nime. The artist, you know?
Man: You're the twit who cobbles that pretentious crap aren't you?
Art: I beg your pardon?
Man: I read once that one of your exhibits was mistaken for trash by a cleaner and thrown out! Ha, what was it: oh yes, a chicken made out of toilet rolls? If I was ever made pope I'd 'a sainted that cleaner.
Art: Tell me. Why do you wear only a vest?
Man: Let me tell you, this vest was washed a few days ago.
Art: How about what you keep inside it. Was that washed a few days ago?
Man: Lady. I may be less than pristine, but at least it's honest sweat from an honest days slog in the workshop. I'm not a con artist.
Art: Neither am I!
Man: Go on: tell me what useful purpose your toilet roll chicken serves.
Art: Alright. For what it's worth, here it is. God said to me one day, he said: Cytra, with communism defunct, capitalist society has gone mad..
Man: I wouldn't argue with you there.
Art: The only problem is, God said, society doesn't realise that it's gone mad. The rich do, but don't care because they're in charge of the asylum. We need to show the general public what's going on. How do we do it?
Man: OK, how?
Art: My plan was to get the rich to buy and display my rubbish, thus making it obvious to the general public, who have to scrimp and save to even buy a roof to go over their heads, that the rich have obscenely more money than they need. The result? Revolution!
Man: Bloody hell! That's brilliant! I never even suspected. You're great! You're like that Spanish bloke ..er.. Picasso. He painted Guernica to point out the violence of the Nazis to the world.
Art: I didn't know you knew about art!
Man: You're doing the same thing for the super-rich! I bow before you.
Art: Well thanks. However, there is now a problem...
Man: What could possibly go wrong?
Art: Last week I sold 100,000 postcard prints of my toilet roll chicken to the general public! It seems they want to emulate the rich...
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