"Ah!" Lucy cried indignantly. "Shouldn't it be 'ladies first'??" She asked.Victor muttered with a grin "You're second place, best is me."
Iris asked a bit seriously to Priam "Am I annoying?", her expression clean of any emotions. She wanted to hear the truth.
Claire said a bit embarrassed, "Don't know to many. But from what I've seen I suppose Van Gogh."
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"No, not anymore than the next person," Priam said honestly. "I find people tiring in the majority. So please don't take my smarmy remarks too much to heart; that's the last impression I'd hoped to leave you with."
"Van Gogh, certainly going a way's back I see," Atalanta mused. "No, he's good. Definitely good. But in terms of more modern artists, Helen Frankenthaler is one of my inspirations. Abstract painting is my way of sorting thoughts and ideas, and that's what she was. One of the finest in the abstract."