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-Eng: Please remember to finish that stack of papers for me as soon as possible. Oh, and make me an espresso too. Remember to add three teaspoons of sugar, no more than 8 grams-

inside the Cologne Cathedral

Italian poet Gabriele d'Annunzio’s description of the portrait displayed alongside the work during its first display:

“Have they hoisted the acrid sponge on the tip of the lance; Against her beauteous mouth elated with the sacrament: The cross without Christ, who suffers above her breast; Is nought but the double wound born in silence.”

Personification of France, Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballet dancer and Brooks’ lover at the time. Behind her burns the Belgian city of Ypres, tragic WW I site

Siegfried Finds the Sleeping Brünnhilde (detail)