I was once asked to look at a portfolio of pencil drawings by an ex-prisoner; they were trite, unaccomplished, cliched, clumsy and painful to look at. They were without a scintilla of merit. When I said so than man’s astonished representative said “But the prison art visitor said he has a rare talent”. “What was he in for?” I asked. “GBH”. “Well,” I suggested, “he would say that, wouldn’t he?”.
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1 雷凯欣 // Oct 6, 2010 at 11:50 am
祝博主国庆节快乐
2 john malpas // Oct 7, 2010 at 1:03 am
quite so.
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‘Rare’ talent can mean all sorts of things. The arts field has a whole quiver full of these words.
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