Thomas Stiltz The Best of Cakebread painting

Thomas Stiltz The Best of Cakebread paintingThomas Stiltz Five First Growths paintingIrene Sheri Wind of Passion painting
One year, the government had introduced admission charges at museums, and groups of angry art-lovers picketed the temples of culture. When he saw this, Chamcha had wanted to get up a placard of his own and stage a one-man counter-protest. Didn't these people know what the stuff inside was _worth?_ There they were, cheerfully rotting their lungs with cigarettes worth more per packet than the charges they were protesting against; what they were demonstrating to the world was the low value they placed upon their cultural heritage. . . Pamela put her foot down. "Don't you dare," she said. She held the then--correct view: that the museums were _too valuable_ to charge for. So: "Don't you dare," and to his surprise he found he did not. He had not meant what he would have seemed to mean. He had meant that he would have given, maybe, in the right . So he could not take seriously these objections to a charge of a few pence. He quite saw, however, that this was an obscure and ill-defended position.)
--_And of human beings, Pamela