After reading for the hundred and twenty-eighth time that “the Bruegel exhibition currently on in Vienna is a once-in-a-lifetime event” and that “this happens only once every hundred years,” I said that enough was enough and that we, too, had to partake of greatness. Each member of the family chose two paintings and will give a presentation on them to the others right there at the exhibition. Zakhar is currently wandering around the airport with a printout of the Wikipedia article “Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery.”

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