...the huge Jackson Pollock canvas that is the U. S. A.: vast, murky, splotched and slapped together by a drunk. (Sarah Vowell)

...the huge Jackson Pollock canvas that is the U. S. A.: vast, murky, splotched and slapped together by a drunk.

Sarah Vowell

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