I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime he was eating a stuffed heart . . . I was thinking, I'm not like these guys. I'm an artist. And I saw a bee come over to some flowers and get all the pollen out. I was looking and thinking, How does it do that? And then the guy who was eating the stuffed heart said, How does that bee do that?

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