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Being a sensible man he did not ask what the painting I had in mind was. His assisting officer, not being a sensible man, did. I had feared this.
This was the man who had tried to get me to paint the Headquarters building in London. This was the man who had asked me to draw an ancient archway in London for one of his higher officials who was living above it and liked its history, and had whispered in my ear it would “do me good.”
This was the man who had suggested interesting subjects like “bomber command mess on Christmas eve” because he had never seen bomber command mess on Christmas eve.
-Eric Aldwinckle, 1944
