Although my Vermeer podcast is STILL not up on WNYC‘s website, I’ve now managed to embed the audio file below. Click the arrow on the left. (UPDATE: Now it’s up, but there’s no embed code, so I’m leaving my own rudimentary audio bar.)
As I suspected might happen, they’ve edited out my comment about how my imagination ran wild after hearing curator Walter Liedtke‘s provocative take on the picture: I started to see something other than the making of bread porridge in the thin stream of milky liquid (on which the maid’s eyes are pensively focused), dripping from a brown jug’s orifice into a bowl.
I’ll leave it to your own fervid imagination to guess what I might be alluding to.