Konrad and Alexandra (pdf) - Rolf Gross

the room, Konrad began to laugh. His naked wife pummeling Manovsky with her fists! "Where
is the painting?" Konrad looked at her baggage. "You didn't bring it with you?"
She glanced at him in a mixture of irony and amazement. "Konrad, would you have liked
a painting of your wife in her full nudity hanging in our apartment? It was an elegant and
sensual pose from the back, a big canvas--I left it with Izabel to sell it to Manovsky for a the
highest possible price and to split the money with Modigliani. He is really destitute."
Konrad frowned. Now the old lecher, was drooling over Alexandra’s nude body. "We
could have stored it in the attic!"
In a complete non-sequitur, Alexandra said, "After we had thrown Manovsky out,
Amedeo made love to me. He had such beautiful hands."
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