“A little gold and a little charcoal, / A little bone, a little wax. / A little alcohol, a little horror and a little gum. / A little ivory, / a little sulphur, / a little damp dust, / a sluice of fluids.”

"The Vesalius Song"
M is for Man, Music, and Mozart

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British film director 1942

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