Leopoldstadt, Alt-Wien. A man playing the violin, figure of a young girl alongside, her right arm outstretched, offering a coin. The old world--a certain formality, born of time--the overcoat, the hat, the leaning pose--gestures containing the past. As in a painting of two horses, by Gericault--beginnings of the modern world. In an alleyway or stall, seen from behind, their nobility played against an inevitable dailiness. Bulk and weight...
Nothing like it since the age of Rome: walls of Pompeii, figure of a man offering loaves of bread from a window, his arms reaching down... The people below. Gesture of plenty, all that can be known. Panadero...
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