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I for the first time produced in the furnace
mineralised gold of great beauty. Out of gratitude,
I showed him the two pieces of cardboard
numbered 207 and 28. Is one to call it
“accident” or “coincidence,” this sign of an
irrefragable logic?
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I repeat that I have never been plagued by
visions, but actual objects sometimes seem to
me to assume a human shape in a grandiose
style. Thus, one day the cushion which my head
has been pressing during a mid-day siesta, looks
like a marble head carved in the style of Michael
Angelo. One evening when I return home in
the company of the “double” of the American
empiric doctor, I discover, in the half-shadow of
the alcove where my bed is, what looks like a
gigantic Zeus reposing on it. Before this
unexpected sight my friend remains seized with an
almost religious fear. His artistic eye comprehends
at once the beauty of the outline. “There
is a great forgotten art,” he says, “born again!
That is where we ought to learn drawing!”
The more one looks at it, the more lifelike and
terrible it appears. Obviously, the spirits have
become realists like the rest of us mortals. It
is no mere accident, for on certain days the
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