Dora Maar Stamp

Hey, I don't want to make you sad! I was telling
you about the casino, misshapen, funny place...
a whole world!...and from 1900!...shoulda seen
its cloakroom!...parasols everywhere!...all for-
gotten now!...and the lorgnettes and the spyglasses!
...real eye-catches!...skeletons of "lost children"...
little flags from the "Russian Alliance"! all over
the place!...paper streamers as far as the eye could
see...all kinds of mustaches...gaulois, "William,"
Chaplinesque, what a fandango that was! two
white burnous, three soutanes, four nannies!...

From Céline's
Fable for Another Time
Translation Mary Hudson