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Writing recently in The New Yorker , Calvin Tompkins complained that the 1980s paintings lacked the "messy viscous slathers of pigment, the turbulence and turmoil, ...
Yet nothingabout the frontier's fenced compoundssuggests the traveller en route elsewhereshould stop--even if stepping on the gascan't do much toward cancelling those pictures,the color of pain, a visual undersong ...Once coppergreen expanses of waterslide into view, though, no one could failto sense the difference in beingbelow sea level--air heavyin the ear, oxygen-rich, cool, dry,scented with desert, and holy enough.A hand dipped in water pondersthe viscous feel of minerals in solution,and little tumuli of salts and carbonatesbuild a submarine city sprawlingfor miles under the hammered-metal surface.On a shore hazed with distance, neat rowsof date palms identify themselveswith a green herringbone frond and ripen foodstuffs for, say, the heavenly banquet.Ritual ablution even so has coatedyour skin with a pale silt glove;and sea and desert are one.
For some reason nearly every kids' toothpaste (Colgate Barney, Oral-B Rugrats) is a viscous gel--especially perplexing since thick gels are ineradicable when smeared across a sink top.
I ask you, can there be any food one wants less in the middle of a long jog than yogurt, only more viscous?
The rice was undercooked, and the sauce was a viscous, grainy gel.