This morning, while we were busy trimming Volume 29, Alden was doing some installation art.

Alden: “Look. I made sunshine!”

If only it were so easy in real life. Art, what a pale, pale imitation you are. (Ironically, this is precisely what Volume 29: Homer Was an Epic Poet is all about).

On the flip side, look what a little art can make real life do:

This is art, of course, in only the loosest, most least-common-denominator sense. Fly, Alden, fly! Fly in your fake art world! — just not too close to the fake art sunshine. Which, it turns out, can at worst only give you a paper cut.