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Drawing by Djuna Barnes, originally published in the New York Morning Telegraph Sunday Magazine, accompanying her article "How the Villagers Amuse Themselves". The original story reads in part:

With manicure set in his hip pocket and his nails shining like a Venetian tumbler from much surreptitious buffing on his moist palm, the villager walks across the tiled floor of the cafe. From his shoulders hangs a long Mephistophelian cape; this he unclasps slowly with long, white, convalescent hands. The cape slips back -- ah, dear Lord, what have we done to receive so much beauty per flash! On his gaunt form is naught but a leopard skin, a little talcum, a string of beads, a garter of winking, seductive sapphires. A dawn of myrrh, a dusk of Hindu-colored grease-paint.

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Description	"'After All, One Must Be Faithful to One's Bracelets'"
Source	Poe's Mother: Selected Drawings of Djuna Barnes, ed. Douglas Messerli (ISBN 1-55713-143-0), p. 101
Date	November 26, 1916
Author	Djuna Barnes
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