"You say you've got loads and then you've got to explain them for two hours.
"It's very upsetting because her twin sister and my other children often come down and place things down for her and then we have got to explain to them that these things are going missing and are being taken away," she said.
This is, in effect, the starting point for a biographer, whose job it is to sort out the important principles, or get someone to explain them.
The subhead on the Politico story -- "The campaign says he was referencing gun-rights voter mobilization, but the remark was widely interpreted as a joke about using guns against his Democratic rival" -- is about as close as any of them got to explaining the importance - and the outrageousness, and perhaps the criminality - of what Trump said.
The purpose of the I.S.H.S. conference is not to get laughs but to explain them through research and analysis in fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, computational science, and linguistics.
As with all exhibitions, the curator's problem is not to get good paintings but to get the best paintings, and to explain them, both in the artists' own words and in an intelligent and informed commentary.
Hopefully I can go some way to explaining them and getting past them, as it is the only way I can be happy with myself.
"But those programs were very expensive, and they took place during the day, so you'd have to leave work to get to them," she explains.
