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"Man at His Bath."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Six years ago, the big museum
sold eight famous paintings

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to purchase for unspecified
millions, Gustave Caillebotte's

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"Man at His Bath."

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Now it's hip to
have a print of it.

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And whenever I see one
hung for decoration,

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I'm almost certain that this
is what Caillebotte had in mind

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when he broke out
the oils in 1884--

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Some 21st-century bitch
in Boston catching

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a glimpse of a
famed reproduction,

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recollecting a study
about how washing oneself

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may induce a sense
of culpability.

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What I remember is he insisted
I clean before leaving--

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that, and he was
trying to be dreamlike.

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He took my jaw in his hand
and said, "in the next life,

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we'll really be together."

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And the clamp in
his voice made me

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almost certain he knew
something I did not.

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Now I eat right, train
hard, get my shots.

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This life-- I'm
angling to remain in

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this life as long as
I can, being almost

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certain as I am what's after.

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