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            <title><![CDATA[TAUPE BOY AND REBEL GIRL]]></title>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This will be a short saga of two characters as aforementioned in the title. They are separate, yet similar: opposites although exactly alike. Taupe Boy is much older and still impressionable. He treats common epiphanies as strokes of genius in order to fill days with dwelling, and books with prolific texts. He feels that inspiration alone is cause enough for art. Any intellectualization after that first morsel is simple-stupid. Therefore, it loses all integrity of the original idea. Taupe Boy is still searching for himself in his third decade of life, a journey that surely will not end soon. But he is already set in his ways of life. He craves the wrong attention, but tires quickly in the presence of others. But oh, how talented he is.</p><p>Rebel Girl is a slightly different story. She is young and opinionated. All naiveté is masked in antagonism, so as not to be discovered as such. Artistic intuition literally seeps from her hands onto canvas, or any other blank surface. Externally, her appearance is colorful. Exoticism is a confused result. She thrives on this, and applies fuchsia lipstick each morning before she starts. Rebel Girl does not know what she considers “art” to be, as that opinion changes often, but she cannot help but make it. All artists preceding her make their presence known in her works. She realizes this and resents it simultaneously upon completion. But oh, how talented she is.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=9a8cb7a681b" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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