“Adela’s outstretched slipper shook slightly and shone like a snake’s tongue.”

— Bruno Schulz

“A Treatise on Mannequins” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/shops/treatise1.htm
His father, Adela (the domestic servant)

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Polish novelist and painter 1892–1942

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