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[Wonderful Labs]

Dear Mr. W,

	What is so popular about the "Dogs Playing Poker" painting?

Sincerely,
Placasto
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Dear Rembrandt van Rijn Tin Tin,

	For one thing, it's got more action than "Cats Playing Solitaire."

	Hell, Dali's early period "Fish Playing Dead" painting has more action
than "Cats Playing Solitaire."  I mean, it's essentially a still life of
an empty table on a cloudy afternoon.  Can't find a feline in the
painting anywhere.  Nope.  Because cats just don't give a damn about you
or anyone.

	There was some speculation that Picasso's grand work "Bulls Playing
Risk" -- based as it was on Whistler's "Dodos Playing Cluedo" -- might
prove popular, but most people just didn't get it.  You want confusing,
though, check out "Chameleons Playing Twister" by Mondrian.

	My favorite was always Escher's "Snakes Playing Chutes & Ladders." 
It's a recursive thing.

	I also recommend "Marmosets Playing The Numbers" by Norman Rockwell, if
only for that marvelous background detail where the one is getting his
legs broken by the bookies.

	Anyway. Point is.  This was going to be a short answer.  "Dogs Playing
Poker" probably refers to "A Friend In Need" by C.M. Coolidge.  It
remains popular for the same reason that "Animal Farm" continues to be
classified as fiction.


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	"And lo! a length of night remains,
	The evening stars still mount the ethereal plains.
	Thy tales with raptures I would hear thee tell,
	Thy woes on earth, the wondrous scenes in hell,
	Till in the vault of heaven the stars decay,
	And the sky reddens with the rising day." 

	- Homer,
	"The Odyssey," Book XI
	in the English verse translation
	by Alexander Pope


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