Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani painting

Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani paintingRembrandt Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery paintingRembrandt The Holy Family with Angels painting
Great Books and Picabian bric-a-brac -- a stuffed monkey which he claimed was a "first draft" of the notorious _Portrait of Cezanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir_, numerous mechanical contraptions including sexual stimulators that delivered small electric shocks, and a first edition of Jarry's _Ubu Roi_. "Elena has wants where she should have thoughts." He Anglicized the name -- Yelyena into Ellaynah --just as it had been his idea to reduce "Alleluia" to Allie and bowdlerize himself, Cohen from Warsaw, into Cone. Echoes of the past distressed him; he read no Polish literature, turning his back on Herbert, on Milosz, on "younger fellows" like Baranczak, because for him the language was irredeemably polluted by history. "I am English now," he would say proudly in his thick East European accent. "Silly mid-offl Pish-Tush! Widow of Windsor! Bugger all." In spite of his reticences he seemed content enough being a pantomime member of the English gentry. In retrospect, though, it looked likely that he'd been only too aware of