They’re vibrating with laughter, as if one of them has just let loose a really, really good fart. They don’t get any of that, the ignorant, useless rich people back in that old church, because they aren’t in enough pain. They walk around in there, happy and content and pleased with the way the world works, so they think it’s a painting of the sea. But any idiot can paint the sea, even a happy idiot can paint the sea! This is a painting of laughter, and you can only understand that if you’re full of holes, because then laughter is a small treasure. Adults will never understand that, because
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