idea if you're gonna win the great sweepstakes, that they'll still be bickering over your work at sotheby'sher 100 years, right? that--i said, "bill, you are in a time-based medium. "these bodies we know. "what is the fear in naked bodies? "obviously--there is the fire, boy. "go--go over there. "and get average people, not the professionals. get average people to come and do something extraordinary." now, the structure has got to be there. it's got to be handsomely constructed. it's got to be thoughtfully lit and so on, because we don't want people just to come out and, you know, let--let it all hang out. but i was inviting them to be part of an artistic ritual that could be dangerous. their mothers and brothers and fathers and sons and daughters over the coffee table." if i could follow up on your point about danger, suggesting that it-- it's actually difficult to conceive of art being dangerous. which is phat, isn't it? yet--yet explain this to me. why is it that for the last 15 years, we've had an assault on the national endowment for the arts? if art can't be dangerous, what are these p