““Were I to cast aside respect before the Creator and seek to make a jest in criticism of creation, then I should demand, ‘Less content and more form!’ Oh, how that loss of content would unburden the world! More modesty in purposes, more restraint in claims, gentlemen demiurges, and the world would be more exquisite!” cried my father as his hands were laying bare Paulina’s white calf from the fetters of her stocking.”

—  Bruno Schulz

“Mannequins” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/shops/mannequins.htm
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Polish novelist and painter 1892–1942

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