The Little Enemy

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'God has no style and no finesse. I looked out at dark Mount Cargill one summer evening - 8pm - and He had painted a perfect mid-Enlightenment genre work, three-layered receding landscape, horizontals spaced light-dark-light the academic rule-book way, sharp chiaroscuro from the low-angled sun, some sky behind horizon-blue. Dramatic clouds. Just add peasants in the foreground sign it Lorrain or some such, and be done with it. Has He not heard of art movements more up-to-date Could he not have done something more with the radio-mast I do despair when after all our care to educate indigenous taste, He still throws something retro in our faces as the sun sinks.'