There's an artist, retired from KU, NG I will call him, who invites us to his house to watch sporting events. We have seen KU basketball, some KC Chiefs football, the Royals when they were in the World Series. He is a friend of my girlfriend's father, so she has known him for at least 50 years. Anyway, I was looking at rather large picture he had up on the wall near his front door (a door they never use, since parking is in the back on a busy street). It had to be a drawing of Lorca, and indeed it is. He explained he had studied with the Beat poet Michael McClure in the Bay Area, and that McClure had told him about Lorca, so he bought this drawing years by someone who was an art student at KU. I told NG I was a Lorca specialist, so he offered me the drawing. I'm suspecting he wants to downsize a bit and get rid of things, and other people at the party told me I should accept the offer, but my first impulse was to say no, since I didn't want to make it seem like I was coveting it.
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