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There are lines and circles, blades and tape, paper and plastic, teachers and learners, decorations and celebrations, degrees of ambition and degrees of accomplishment, and people who pay for it on credit cards and Van Gogh who had to pay for every tube of paint, and where that leaves you is wondering what happens when you're 64 and you have a stroke and who takes care of business then, when all you ever wanted to do was play all day, making scenes and spinning dreams and society just can't see it that way, so Diane McCabe seethes inside, volcanic with artistic intent, ready to spew lava instead of playing the game with patience for profit . . .