That day I cried. Common, sure. Yet I can remember no instance, before or since, of something else, so outside of me, something not created in my own head, that’s affected me so. Sad--sad that I’m so insulated from real life--but true. God’s gift to the rich, I’ve heard, is self-pity and boredom, and I think it’s true, at least for me. I want something at my fingertips to remind me of “real“ pain. (Plus I like how you’ve added color; the one I’d bought is B&W.) Thanks for the chance to speak.

I am asking for around 500 words, and your submission only had 100. Please tell me more about the B&W version you already bought.

If someone told you to put some more red, or people, or stripes, or anything, in a flipbook which you—its creator—thought was done, would it be done? (How many words is that?) (And do the parenthetical words count, too?)

Each September 11th Flipbook cost me $3.50 plus shipping, and I cannot afford to give this art away. I will gladly send you a free color book, if you tell me about the B&W version you already bought. I'm just asking for a couple more sentences.

It was a B&W that you did—of Oprah—and I love it. It sits next to some great Mexican folk art that I just got in Cabo San Lucas, part of a series of art books on a desk shelf. I’ve not seen this done before, what you do with flipbooks that is, I think, in the precise way as you have done it--though admittedly I’m hardly a flipbook connoisseur, if there is such a person. Try Ebay? Or is that too obvious? I have collected art work from a young artist in Philadelphia who reminded me of Basquiat just from the kid’s work shown on Ebay. Are you, or do you aspire to be part of the “one-percent”—you know, of artists who can support themselves on their art? In any event, very kind of you to send me the color book! Thank you. I will display it proudly!!

Dave Schneider