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Gottfried Rosenbaum said somewhere of certain sculptures that dey madt him feel goodt ven he lookedt at dem.
At the weekend, picking sloes and blackberries on a warm and sunny riverbank, I was wondering why it was so fun. The future pleasures of handling and preparing the fruit seemed dubious and more like work, and the eating of the end products impossibly far distant^*. But the sorting of the objects from the vast messy matrix of the world and the piling of them together into a container was very good, and then there was the weight of the full basket at the end of my arm, so that I could say that dey madt me feel goodt ven I carriedt dem.

*sloe gin takes several years to mature.

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