At New York City, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 2009, I was enjoying . . .

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. . . the twofold luxury of meditation and a whisky, in company with my 
friend, D. Sinister, in his little back library, or book-closet, in the 
basement, No. 38, Ludlow Street, in the Lower East Side. For one hour at 
least we had maintained a profound silence; while each, to any casual 
observer, might have seemed intently and exclusively occupied with the 
curling eddies of smoke that oppressed the atmosphere of the chamber. For 
myself, however, I was mentally discussing certain topics which had formed 
matter for conversation between us at an earlier period of the evening; I 
mean the affair of THE BLIND MAN IN THE DARK ROOM, and the mystery 
attending to his LOOKING FOR THE BLACK CAT THAT ISN'T THERE. I looked upon 
it, therefore, as something of a coincidence, when the door of our 
apartment was thrown open and admitted our old acquaintance, Mr. Huberman, 
the Curator of the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis.

We gave him a hearty welcome; for there was nearly half as much of the 
entertaining as of the contemptible about the man, and we had not seen him 
for several years. We had been sitting in the dark, and Sinister now arose 
for the purpose of lighting a lamp, but sat down again, without doing so, 
upon H.'s saying that he had called to consult us, or rather to ask the 
opinion of my friend, about some official business which had occasioned a 
great deal of trouble.

"If it is any point requiring reflection," observed Sinister, as he 
forbore to enkindle the wick, "we shall examine it to better purpose in 
the dark."

"That is another one of your odd notions," said the Curator, who had the 
fashion of calling everything "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and 
thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities."

"Very true," said Sinister, as he supplied his visitor with a pipe, and 
rolled toward him a comfortable chair.

--

Please come to

Dexter Sinister
38 Ludlow Street, Basement (between Hester & Grand)
on this Saturday night, September 26
at 8:30 pm

where Anthony Huberman and Dexter Sinister will account
FOR THE BLIND MAN IN THE DARK ROOM LOOKING FOR THE BLACK CAT THAT ISN'T 
THERE
(an exhibition currently on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis)

http://www.contemporarystl.org/
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