“Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks…”

—  Peter Greenaway

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

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British film director 1942

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