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exist, therefore it ought to be, and what ought
it obviously to be—a new-born harmony of
matter and spirit.
The sculptor is a seer. He tells me that he
has seen Orpheus and Christ side by side in a
block of stone, and adds that he intends to return
there and use them as models for a group for
the Salon.
As I went down the Rue de Rennes one evening
with the same seer, he drew my attention
to a book-shop window where coloured lithographs
were exhibited. They represented fantastic
scenes with human bodies whose heads
were replaced by pansies. In spite of my
botanical observations, I had never before seen
the likeness between the pansy and the human
face. My friend seemed greatly surprised at it.
“Only think!” he said. “When I came home
last evening the pansies in my window-box
looked at me like so many human faces. I
thought it was a hallucination of my
over-excited nerves. And here are these pictures
drawn a long time ago. It is then a fact and
no illusion, for this unknown artist has made
the same discovery before me.”
We make progress in the art of vision, and
this time it is I who discover a Napoleon with
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