Agathe feels threatened by the lascivious gazes she excites from men she encounters in the tenement housing and has a horror of returning. Le riche a ses titres en caisse, Nous avons nos valeurs en jupon, Et maigre la hausse ou la baisse. There is at play an unsettling disjunction between the seeming usefulness of particular details the ladder, the diagrammatic descriptions of layout, the specificity of the time frames , and the lacunae that still inhibit our access to meaning. Much of the appeal, and vigor, of Bruant's street songs comes from their first person stylization. Though Pillow predated the Paris works, it appears that Toyen either found Paris especially conducive to the creation of erotica or that most of her earlier erotic works have been lost or destroyed.
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