Mark Rothko Orange and Yellow painting

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"Now you take me," he invited us again above the engine-noise, and grasped his own shirt-front as before. "Me, I'm no smarter nor stupider than the next fellow; I had to work hard for everything I got --"
"Which is plenty," Max put in. Peter Greene agreed with a laugh that he was not the poorest man on the campus, yet denied he was the richest, that distinction belonging to Ira Hector -- for whom, when all was said and done, he had a grudging admiration. "Despite some say he's a Moishian. . ."
"Mr. Greene!" I protested.
He winked and cocked his head. "Now, don't get het up; I don't hold it against him if he is! And I guess I thinkReggie Hector's about the greatest man in New Tammany."
Max closed his eyes.
"But what I was saying," Greene went on, "I don't mean to boast, now, but what I figure --By jingo, I'm okay!" He bobbed his head sharply. "When all's said and done! If I do say so myself!"
I begged his pardon.
"I figure I'm passèd because good old NTC is passèd," he said. "The passèdest doggone in the doggone University!"