[Looking at paintings in an art school]
Phileas: That painting is highly inaccurate.
Monique: It's not supposed to be accurate. The artist views reality through imagination rather than simply recording it. It is called impressionism.
Phileas: Well, um, I'm not "impressed". Trees are not violet, grass is not charcoal, and a man cannot...
[He is silent for a moment, gazing at Monique's painting of a nude man beside a bird in the sky]
Phileas: ...fly.
Monique: You feel something. You dream of flying. Or of naked men.
Phileas: Sometimes.
Monique: [smiling] Ah.
Phileas: [stammering] The flying! N-N-Not the men.
Phileas: That painting is highly inaccurate.
Monique: It's not supposed to be accurate. The artist views reality through imagination rather than simply recording it. It is called impressionism.
Phileas: Well, um, I'm not "impressed". Trees are not violet, grass is not charcoal, and a man cannot...
[He is silent for a moment, gazing at Monique's painting of a nude man beside a bird in the sky]
Phileas: ...fly.
Monique: You feel something. You dream of flying. Or of naked men.
Phileas: Sometimes.
Monique: [smiling] Ah.
Phileas: [stammering] The flying! N-N-Not the men.
[Looking at paintings in an art school]
Phileas : That painting is highly inaccurate.
Monique : It's not supposed to be accurate. The artist views reality through imagination rather than simply recording it. It is called impressionism.
Phileas : Well, um, I'm not "impressed". Trees are not violet, grass is not charcoal, and a man cannot...
[He is silent for a moment, gazing at Monique's painting of a nude man beside a bird in the sky]
Phileas : ...fly.
Monique : You feel something. You dream of flying. Or of naked men.
Phileas : Sometimes.
Monique : [smiling] Ah.
Phileas : [stammering] The flying! N-N-Not the men.
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