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âIn the back left, a signed card from Kurt Vonnegut. It says, âLife is no way to treat an animal.â Lovely saying. I was friendly with him for quite a while. On the far right, the bicycle wheel is a Marcel Duchamp model. He was always so unbelievably original. But heâs dead. Next to it is a cookie jar of W.C. Fields. He used to say the most wonderful things: âI never drink water. I donât like what fish do in it!â Iâve always gone on about W.C. Fields being the funniest. On the left, thereâs an LMS toy trainâLondon, Midland & Scottish Railway. My father built me a train set upstairs in the attic that I could climb inside and come out in the middle. I could run the trains around me, which was quite a nice thing to do at the time, and thatâs one of the trains from it. To the left, with the big beak, is a Needless Smut model. This came to my mind when I was starting to do