Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Art Shows

Well, this is a rather glum photo of one of my collages, which I believe I named something along the lines of The DayDream.  I would now want to name it something more obscure, like TheAncient Philospher's Theorem Realized - which doesn't mean anything but sounds rather impressive.  I plan to come up with a whole stock of pretentious, meaningless titles so that when I need to come up with a name for an exhibit, I can just close my eyes and pick one at random.  Suggestions?

That set me to thinking about Sherlock Holmes and Watson.  I think I remember some wordplay along these lines:
Watson:  So it was a stomach ailment all along, Holmes?
Holmes:  Alimentary, my dear Watson.

Watson:  So that rude young man did it!
Holmes:  Rudimentary, my dear Watson.

Watson:  So it was heavy metals poisoning that knocked her off!\
Holmes:  Elementary, my dear Watson . . .

And so forth.  Ah ha!  Maybe one title could be Sherlock Holme's Day Dream, with a companion piece, Sherlock Holme's Nightmare.

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