Part 4, Chapter 25 Summary

Tick is learning a lot about Mrs. Roderigue. For instance, she believes that her art teacher is in love with Bill Taylor instead of her husband, who Tick thinks looks like a bowling ball. Taylor is a well coiffed TV artist who hosts a show every Sunday. In every episode, he starts with a blank canvas and always finishes a marvelous painting of some inane subject matter by the end of hour. Bill always works with watercolors, he says, because they dry faster. Bill even has a battery-powered hair dryer to lend nature a hand when necessary. One thing Tick always marvels at is that every time Mr. Taylor makes a mistake, he chuckles, dismissing the error and noting that he will fix it before his hour is up. Tick has trouble reconciling his 'fix it' philosophy with life in which...