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 When updating existing book/note pages to the new <code>| book spoiler</code> parameter, remove the "yes" as well in most cases. Spoilers on books should be sparse. See [[Template_talk:MiscItemPage]] for more information. [[User:Addela|Addela]] ([[User talk:Addela|talk]]) 07:48, 6 December 2023 (CET)
+== book missing: Art Appraisal ==
+[Art Appraisal by Gonner Maude begins with this:]
+My mother took me aside one morning and told me my
+father had gone crazy. I was seven at the time. In her
+defense she was pretty gentle about it. 'Your Dad's
+okay. He's just gone crazy is all.' When I asked her if
+crazy meant he'd locked himself in his study again to
+paint for three days, she told me no, he'd attacked her
+with a sharpened paintbrush. She said it just like that.
+Matter of fact. No tears in sight.
+They had been married six years, tying the knot one
+year after Mum pushed me out between her legs in a
+garden shed in the boonies outside Waterdeep.
+Art is a funny thing.
+Mitcher and Webson tell us in their excellent
+breakdown of the craft that good art replicates life
+whilst great art overcomes life. That morning, at seven
+years old with unlaced shoes and a friction burn on my
+butt from scooting too fast across the floor, I learned
+the truth of that, and its corollary: that while
+overcoming that strange thing called life, great art can
+gobble it up just as easily