Marc Chagall The Model paintingMarc Chagall The Grand Parade paintingMarc Chagall The Fiddler painting
their parents' good behaviour-from France, Germany, Parthia, North Africa, Syria-who were educated with his grandchildren and the sons of leading senators in the Boys' college; and he often came into the cloisters there to play at taws, or knucklebones, or tag. His chief favourites were little brown boys, the Moors and Parthians and Syrians: and those who could rattle away happily to him in boyish talk as if he were one of themselves. Only once did he try to master his repugnance to me and let me into a game of taws with his favourites. but it was so unnatural an effort that it made me more than usually nervous-and I stammered and shook like a mad thing. He never tried again. He hated dwarfs and cripples and deformities, saying that they brought bad luck and should be
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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