Bohemia. A desert country near the sea. (58)
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In 1911, an Italian house painter named Vincenzo Perruggia who had been working at the Louvre managed to remove the Mona Lisa from its frame and walk out with it under his overalls.
And to go unsuspected until he tried to sell it two years later. (59)
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Before Sylvia Plath turned on her oven to commit suicide, she left bread and butter and milk in the bedroom where her two children were sleeping. (60)
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Always a bit confused on the mechanics. Is it the heat or gas of the stove that is lethal? The heat seems improbable. If it is the gas, why aren’t the children dead?
Leibniz: Why is there anything at all rather than nothing? (61)
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When Daumier was sixty, destitute and almost blind, Corot bought the house Daumier was renting and gave it to him. (62)
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Der Untergang des Abendlandes. (63)
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Protagonist living near a disused cemetery, perhaps? (64)
A sense somehow of total retreat? Abandonment? (65)
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