John Green Quote
The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n’est pas une pipe. (This is not a pipe.)I just don’t get that shirt, Mom said. Peter Van Houten will get it, trust me. There are like seven thousand Magritte references in An Imperial Affliction. But it is a pipe. No, it’s not, I said. It’s a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It’s very clever. How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother? Mom asked. It seems like just yes-terday that I was telling seven-year-old Hazel why the sky was blue. You thought I was a genius back then. Why is the sky blue? I asked. Cuz, she answered. I laughed.
The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n’est pas une pipe. (This is not a pipe.)I just don’t get that shirt, Mom said. Peter Van Houten will get it, trust me. There are like seven thousand Magritte references in An Imperial Affliction. But it is a pipe. No, it’s not, I said. It’s a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It’s very clever. How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother? Mom asked. It seems like just yes-terday that I was telling seven-year-old Hazel why the sky was blue. You thought I was a genius back then. Why is the sky blue? I asked. Cuz, she answered. I laughed.