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Unintelligent Design
An hour a day,
sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble I found in Carrara and shipped to New York on the deck of a trawler. I offered the marble to a famous sculptor who told me he works in granite only so I grabbed his beret and one of his smocks and said I'd sculpt the block myself with whittling skills picked up as a kid from a drunken uncle named Whittling Sid. Several weeks later, to my surprise, I finished the bust of a chimpanzee simply by wielding mallet and chisel the way I wield pencil and eraser when hewing a poem. Working with marble or working with words, a sculptor or poet proves less is more by chipping away until something emerges upright and walking with a soul of its own.
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