A large space–half dark… deadly… completely confused…
Provocative!… delicate… dream-like… recesses, heavy doors
And broad shadows, which lead to blue corners…
And somewhere a sound that clinks like a Champagne glass.
On a fragile rug lies a wide picture book,
Distorted and exaggerated by a green ceiling light.
How–soft little cats–piously white girls make love!
In the background an old man and a silk handkerchief.
(Alfred Lichtenstein)
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