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same way it seems that some people receive certain "gifts" merely by
remaining unwittingly
in
an undemocratic state of grace. It is a supposi·
tion that leaves painting like Gregorio's a partial mystery. But surely
anything that is impossible for others to achieve by effort, that is danger·
ous to imitate, and yet, like natural virtue, must be both admired and
imitated, always remains mysterious.
Anyway, who could fail to enjoy and admire those secretive palm
trees in their pink skies, the Traveller's Palm, like "the fan-filamented
antenna of a certain gigantic moth ..." or the picture of the church in
Cuba copied from a liquor advertisement and labelled with so literal a
translation from the Spanish, "Church of St. Mary' Rosario 300 Years
Constructed in Cuba."
