Montanez v. Carvajal

ORDER

PAUL G. BYRON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Lillian was bewildered by the enormous discrepancy which existed between Jay’s models and what he painted. Together they would walk along the same Seine river, she would see it silky grey, sinuous and glittering, he would draw it opaque with fermented mud, and a shoal of wine bottle corks and weeds caught in the stagnant edges.

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Lillian was reminded of the talmwdic words: “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. ”1

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