Origins of Wednesday cv: Blueblood in the headlights

   To grandmother's house we go, of

   course, but what a fateful route

   we take. A friend of mine collid-

   ed with two deer on successive

   nights on the same open road in

   our part of the world last week.

   Deer just have no sense at all.

   You never see one wearing blue.

Joshua Reynolds

  Joshua Reynolds

National Portrait Gallery

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