In the years before I became an artist and started wearing a cravat and monocle, I used to work in advertising. For a while I worked for a legendary ad man. He was famous for two things. One was a story he would tell that involved manually stimulating his hound dog, “because he looked sad.” The other was that he had a way of understanding exactly how people functioned. One day, on the way back from a meeting, he looked at me and said, “Phil, you’re a pathological contrarian.”
He was absolutely right.
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