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Thelnt & Shin

II.

today I am leaning towards "shin."
months ago I saw a wonderful
commercial for northwest airlines
and inside an airplane was a very
handsome japanese architect
who said: "everything I see inspires
me..."

I used to ask all my friends: "who is
that japanese architect who is inspired
all the time?" and no one seemed to 
know.

I asked everybody. perhaps I should
have flown northwest airlines.
I did start to take a sketch pad
everywhere, though, just like
whoever he was. I think I felt 
more inspired, but I am not sure
that I it was by everything.

2 days ago your mama and I 
waited in the doctor's office in
order to speak with a nutrion
alist. we didnšt know at the time, 
but she was about to pull a 
plastic glass with plastic milk in
it out of a steel case and say:
"this is how much milk you 
should be drinking."

she also would do it with 2
pieces of plastic chicken & 1 cup
of plastic green beans. yet before
any of this happened, we were 
in the waiting room, and I opened 
up a very old TIME magazine. it
spoke a great deal in this particular
issue about computers 
and princesses. on pg. 24, though,
there was an ad for northwestern
airlines. there was a picture
of a man with his eyes closed with a 
watermark of geometrical shapes behind
him and in front of him, too. "everything
I see inspires me," said shin takamatsu, 
architect. "everything."

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