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A story is told of Igor Stravinsky, who was getting increasingly irritated by a talkative man in the train seat alongside him. When the man, after describing his young wife in glowing terms, reached into his pocket and pulled a wallet-sized photograph of her; Stravinsky cupped the photo in both hands, and then remarked "She is quite small, isn't she?"

Mark Johnston, "Objective Mind and the Objectivity of Our Minds", in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 75, No. 2, September 2007, p. 238.