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Excerpt: ...that in Sennaar people probably said what they thought when they conversed. You''d better go to Sennaar, then, yourself, Mr. Potiphar, said my wife, as she smoothed … Plus…

Excerpt: ...that in Sennaar people probably said what they thought when they conversed. You''d better go to Sennaar, then, yourself, Mr. Potiphar, said my wife, as she smoothed her rumpled feathers. ''Pon my word, madam, it''s my own opinion, replied I. Kurz Pacha, who is a philosopher (of the Sennaar school), asks me if people have no ideas of their own in building houses. I answer, none, that I know of, except that of getting the house built. The fact is, it is as much as Paul Potiphar can do, to make the money to erect his palatial residence, and then to keep it going. There are a great many fine statues in my house, but I know nothing about them: I don''t see why we should have such heathen images in reputable houses. But Mrs. P. says: Pooh! have you no love for the fine arts? There it is. It doesn''t do not to love the fine arts; so Polly is continually cluttering up the halls and staircases with marble, and sending me heavy bills for the same. When the house was ready, and my wife had purchased the furniture, she came and said to me: Now, my dear P., there is one thing we haven''t thought of. What''s that? Pictures, you know, dear. What do you want pictures for? growled I, rather surlily, I am afraid. Why, to furnish the walls; what do you suppose we want pictures for? I tell you, Polly, said I, that pictures are the most extravagant kind of furniture. Pshaw! a man rubs and dabbles a little upon a canvas two feet square, and then coolly asks three hundred dollars for it. Dear me, Pot, she answered, I don''t want home-made pictures. What an idea! Do you think I''d have pictures on my walls that were painted in this country?-No, my dear husband, let us have some choice specimens of the old masters. A landscape by Rayfel, for instance; or one of Angel''s fruit pieces, or a cattle scene by Verynees, or a Madonna of Giddo''s, or a boar hunt of Hannibal Crackkey''s. What was the use of fighting against this sort of thing? I told her to have it her... George William Curtis, Books, History, The Potiphar Papers Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153717366

Excerpt: ...that in Sennaar people probably said what they thought when they conversed. You''d better go to Sennaar, then, yourself, Mr. Potiphar, said my wife, as she smoothed … Plus…

Excerpt: ...that in Sennaar people probably said what they thought when they conversed. You''d better go to Sennaar, then, yourself, Mr. Potiphar, said my wife, as she smoothed her rumpled feathers. ''Pon my word, madam, it''s my own opinion, replied I. Kurz Pacha, who is a philosopher (of the Sennaar school), asks me if people have no ideas of their own in building houses. I answer, none, that I know of, except that of getting the house built. The fact is, it is as much as Paul Potiphar can do, to make the money to erect his palatial residence, and then to keep it going. There are a great many fine statues in my house, but I know nothing about them: I don''t see why we should have such heathen images in reputable houses. But Mrs. P. says: Pooh! have you no love for the fine arts? There it is. It doesn''t do not to love the fine arts; so Polly is continually cluttering up the halls and staircases with marble, and sending me heavy bills for the same. When the house was ready, and my wife had purchased the furniture, she came and said to me: Now, my dear P., there is one thing we haven''t thought of. What''s that? Pictures, you know, dear. What do you want pictures for? growled I, rather surlily, I am afraid. Why, to furnish the walls; what do you suppose we want pictures for? I tell you, Polly, said I, that pictures are the most extravagant kind of furniture. Pshaw! a man rubs and dabbles a little upon a canvas two feet square, and then coolly asks three hundred dollars for it. Dear me, Pot, she answered, I don''t want home-made pictures. What an idea! Do you think I''d have pictures on my walls that were painted in this country?-No, my dear husband, let us have some choice specimens of the old masters. A landscape by Rayfel, for instance; or one of Angel''s fruit pieces, or a cattle scene by Verynees, or a Madonna of Giddo''s, or a boar hunt of Hannibal Crackkey''s. What was the use of fighting against this sort of thing? I told her to have it her... George William Curtis, Books, History, The Potiphar Papers Books>History <

ISBN: 9781153717366

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