Nobody cares about PROOFREADING. It's FREE. You get what you PAY FOR.
Today at the NY Daily News website, a reporter demonstrated her inability to distinguish PORING over something and POURING over something.
Ironically, her article was about somebody OBSERVANT. (No, not observent).
A scholar discovered a few bits of grasshopper were stuck in the heavy globs of a Van Gogh painting. The scholar was "POURING OVER" the painting at the time.
Unlike a glaring mistake of writing POURING instead of PORING, the little bit of grasshopper stuck in the painting can NOT even be seen with the naked eye. It was only uncovered due to a careful routine examination of the paint.
Van Gogh often worked outside, to capture the fields and flowers exactly as they were. He wrote that a drawback was when the wind kicked up and added some bits of dirt to the wet paint, or some gnats and flies got stuck. It's actually a bit of a surprise that more little creatures aren't stuck in his paintings. Some probably are simply buried in an added blob of pigment.
Why, there may even be a few insects in one of his own Self-Pour Traits. You might see them in his skin, where he did the Self-Pore work. All this, while bitterly complaining how pore he was.
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