From: Songs of The Bride,
The Hague Satyres.
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The Bride and the Last Two Bachelors in the Hague Municipal Museum
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the Lackey and the Juggler of Gravity
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[Bruid]

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Within the framework of some of some prestigious project

The Large Glass is on loan to The Hague Municipal Museum:
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Deathly still she hangs in a room

pressed between two plates of glass

according to her Fathers design.
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The viewers revolve in admiration

around the Bachelors on the bottom

and the Bride on top of the Glass.

Because of the rotation of those masses

around the plane

because of the rotation of the third dimension

around the second

- the room turns along! -

a fourth dimension unfolds itself

enveloping the other three.
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Now she can escape from the plane

in which she was imprisoned since 1923:
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along perpendicular lines she expands

Into the third and the fourth dimension

from where she projects herself back

to the Hague Municipal Museum

but now in freer form!
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There she drifts by the rooms

containing the works of art.

She saunters she hops she skips and glides

she slips right through a wall

and journeys back four, five year in time......
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Music from a piano is heard, wine is served

inaugural night!

Artists display their work.

is not it beautiful?

could this be the home of the gods?

would she meet Dionysus and Apollo here?
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Suddenly she stops.

What does she see?

She stumbles

she misses a step

her own work hanging on the wall!

the combinations she found years ago

point by point transfered

to a room in the museum?

and a Bachelor standing there?

claiming to be the author?

wearing her gown?

but not carriyng Her Emblem?

Is that not against the rules of etiquette?

Who is his sponsor?

Who was is muse?
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[Vrijgezellen]

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His Muse was not a young woman

as portrayed sometimes in paintings

bending nonchalantly over the artist

with an inspiring word or image here and there.

His muse was an old spinster

who under pretext of dubious ideals

taped conversations of younger friends

and passed them on to those

lacking their own inspiration.

He does not even suspect

that he has shamed Her Trust.

Might that not have been the reason

why their father did not put him in the Glass?

It was early on apparent that

he too skillfully juggled with Gravity.

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Because they regard her courtesy

a weakness

Because they took advantage

of her Timid Strength

she judges them and condemns them both

to the hell of Her Esthetics

where in Eternity they will

photograph, make copies, cliches and plagiarize

all what already was done by others!

And soon their hobby becomes their punishment:

their wailing and complaining in Hell

sound like music to her ears!

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