SEATTLE -- Rallying to the defense of the sculpture of a nude woman on display next door to the new Burien library brought a flurry of e-mails that, in part, called into question my artistic sensibilities.

Brad Dawkins writes: "So you think 'remarkable beauty' consists of showing what an older woman looks like without any clothes on? Families with children will be walking past what you call art...I call it a slap in the public's face."

Caroline Wasser: "There is no purpose of showing a squatting, naked woman in a field...Just because someone calls it art doesn't mean it is right."

Walter Trillin: "I continue to watch as our society becomes more and more debased...If this is what you call art, it belongs in a museum, not outside a library where kids can gawk at it."

Tom Henshaw: "No way should that naked woman be allowed to stay there...It looks like she's relieving herself."

And finally, there was the voice mail I got from Abby Duncan.

At first I was crushed because I thought she said I was not cool.

On listening to the message again, what she actually said was that I am not couth.

That I can handle.

Thanks for writing everyone.

Have a great weekend.

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