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'President of the Republic of Dreams'

Louis Aragon's description of Raymond Roussel.

Roussel's wealth allowed him to design and build a 'land yacht' by which he toured Europe whilst writing his fantastical pieces.

Hidden themes from the occult

Strawberry elite

Colour is control

Everything in itself, complete

The King's boundary

A machine for recording lost faces.

Balzac the phenomenon

"He sometimes puts me in mind of those etchers who are never content with the acid's bite, and transform the main scratchings on the copper into veritable ravines."

Baudelaire on Balzac.

The Art of Life

The art of life consists in the creation of an original and unique self; and this is something that the simplest mind can achieve.

John Cowper Powys

Behold, nature unveiled....

Animism is the belief that inanimate objects are sentient beings. Let us be clear that it differs from totemism.

The extravagence

Michael Kimmelman, in The Accidental Masterpiece, calls the work of Chardin 'extravagant understatement'.