Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 9/4/04: Her disbelief is actually pretty reasonable.

Romare Bearden, "Mother and Child," 1977 — Romare Bearden, *Mother and Child* (1977)

September 4, 2004:

Her disbelief is actually pretty reasonable. Granted it was an obviously broken arm with the bone sticking through the skin. Yet by that time I was so committed to school avoidance through malingering that it must have seemed like any other phantom ailment that would disappear round about the end of the school day.