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Today, Google honors Joan Miro.

In 12th grade AP Art History, I wrote my term paper on Miro's Nocturne. The paper was pretentious bullshit, as I recall, tying together pretty much every pre-war, Continental, semi-existentialist book I had read, skimmed, or glanced at the cover of. All six of them.

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The paper was pretentious bullshit

But high school teachers seem to like that. That and citing many different sources whether the info actually comes from that source doesn't seem to matter. My art history papaer was on Francis Bacon. Good stuff.

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I was always resentful of Francis Bacon for having such an unoriginal name. I once read a piece in McSweeney's by my homeboy Tim Carvell and I was absolutely befuddled by his allusions to Bacon until I realized that he did not intend the father of modern scientific inquiry.