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                                              February 2, 2019


  Near the beginning of the first story "How the
  Brotherhood Came Together", from Henry
  Murger's "The Latin Quarter"
  ("Scénes de la Vie Bohème"):
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     "One morning (it was the 8th of April) Alexandre
     Schaunard, who cultivated the two liberal arts of music
     and painting, was suddenly startled out of slumber by a
     lusty peal from the king of a neighbouring poultry-yard,
     who acted as his alarm his clock.  ...  So saying he
     skipped nimbly out of a piece of furniture of his own
     invention, a kind of Jack-of-all-trades, which played
     the role of a bedstead by night (and, without boasting
     played it passably ill), while by day it represented
     everything else, the rest of the furniture having been
     absent ever since the previous winter-- a remarkably
     rigorous season."



     " ... suddenly, as if a tarantula had bitten
     him, he began to dance, executing a
     choregraphic composition of his own which had
     often won the honour of special attention from
     the police at public balls."




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