the anti-heroine of an era of bathtub gin, organized crime, and jazz, clouded in the smoke of fired guns and cigarettes.
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,”
thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”

― John Berger, Ways of Seeing


@темы: with serpents for arms the lovers are the hydra of the tale