I? No, not a bit of it; I should like to have learned, but I had no great facility for it. But one of my dearest friends was—is a painter, a very gifted one. [That change in verb tense is some kind of rebellion, some kind of resistance to fate and the future, and it's all he has.] He has a particular talent for portraiture.
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I? No, not a bit of it; I should like to have learned, but I had no great facility for it. But one of my dearest friends was—is a painter, a very gifted one. [That change in verb tense is some kind of rebellion, some kind of resistance to fate and the future, and it's all he has.] He has a particular talent for portraiture.