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Okay people time to celebrate its the last one Here

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in this series of eleven questions on this awesome piece

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of writing about an old painting here we go It

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is the image pictured on the reverse Let's go down

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to the writing here it's the last paragraph and everybody

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putting up decorations tonight If i can help make it

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from his most famous painting it is the image pictured

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on the reverse of a hell of a lot of

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people think i got it Well let's See image and

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picture mean roughly the same thing So there's no need

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to say both words here If we stick with it

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is pictured when we can avoid all that redundancy repetitive

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n'est saying the same thing over and over and over

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again You know we don't want to be redundant not

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saying things again and again A picture must also be

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an image So explaining that what's pictured is an image

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is redundant there unless what's being pictured is the image

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of an image itself which has an eerie hall of

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mirrors feel to it And likewise in this context anything

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shown also has to be a picture there's no other

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way to be pictured Other men as in image So

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that's a tad redundant as well So redundancy is our

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enemy Our villain are off putting one way Want to

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get rid of him All right the answer See it's 00:01:09.82 --> [endTime] pictured on the reverse We're done

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