Max Jabobs admires one of his many puppets
From: Mona Lisa's Mustache:
"Among the major enthusiasms of Max Jacob and his group were the paintings of Henri Rousseau, the customs-house inspector.... It is not without significance that this fascination with Rousseau has a connection with the occult, for Rousseau was entirely persuaded that he painted according to the dictates of his dead wife whose astral hand guided his brush."
"Certain of Max Jacob's declarations contain a strange mixture of a profound Christian religiosity with a curious emotionalism and cunning. Typical of Jacob's mystical hallucination and sense of publicity was the claim that the Deity had appeared to him in his room on the Place Ravignan... and followed up this visit by sitting in the next seat to Jacob in a cinema"
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"Ah yes, you sir, are my favorite, from your little toes to your equestrian nose."
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