In February 1996, when I was working at the Smithsonian, I wrote an essay about my experience standing in line to see the Vermeer exhibition at the National Gallery. \u00a0I was never able to get anyone to publish it, and since this predated having everything on one hard drive, I lost the essay in the d\u00e9bris of my files. \u00a0But file archaeology recently turned up the essay, and I thought it might be fun to share it (I haven’t edited it at all), since it seems no less apropos now than when I wrote it. \u00a0Hopefully the link will open for interested readers<\/p>\n
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