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What is une psychi?19 .<br />

<strong>The</strong> city made of markets. Thus Riga, when viewed from the other side of the<br />

river in the evening light, looks like a warehouse. When multicolored clouds<br />

gather over the ocean, Chinese legend says the gods are corning together to hold<br />

a market. <strong>The</strong>y name this phenomenon hai-thiJ or the sea-market. <br />

Comparison of the arcades to the indoor arenas in which one learned to ride a bicycle. In<br />

these halls the figure of the woman assumed its most seductive aspect: as cyclist. That is<br />

how she appears on contemporary posters. Cheret as painter of this feminine pulchritude.<br />

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Music in arcades. It seems to have settled into these spaces only with the decline of dle<br />

arcades-that is to say, only with the advent of mechanical music. (Gramophone. <strong>The</strong><br />

"theatrophone' in certain respects its forerumler.) Nevertheless, there was music dlat<br />

conformed to the spirit of the arcades-a panoramic music, such as can be heard today<br />

only in old-fashioned genteel concerts like those of the casino orchestra in Monte Carlo:<br />

the panoramic compositions of David (Le Disert, Herculanum). <br />

<strong>The</strong> nine muses of Surrealism: Luna, Cleo de Merode, Kate Greenaway, Mors,<br />

Friederil

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