...a deathly serenade...

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the living room through the doorway positioned
to the left of the front entrance. "Conflicted
beauty," said Leila Dois in her afterword to
Franz' novel, A Voyeauristic Supper, "him and is
Art is a complex moment of water and sunshine:
desire and need." Complex, his living room was
found in a state that reflected this, where the
marble floor runs in, and confronts you with the
same black fabric on the walls. A glass coffee
table sat slightly in the way of the entrance, just
in front of the black leather sofa that has a gold
trombone sat in the middle. The Professor's
book, Pragmatic Formula's, sits on the see through
coffee table, which was opened to page 66,
bookmarked - strangely enough - by an A4 print
of Yashu's painting entitled: God's & The Devil's -
Riding Coattails…?, 2012; strange, because Franz
would have had to have intentionally made a copy
- as, before Yashu's death, he partially destroyed
this cryptic work, that still sold well at Christie's
even though it had blank ink covering much of
the same painting (Christie's Auction - Modern
Expressionists, 2013).
Paraphrased from, Selected
correspondence of Franz Bema, in relation to this
reading of The Professor's book, Pragmatic
Formulas, Franz often spoke of his friendliness
with The Professor, his books and his "methods",
which, of course, influenced his move to
Islington, becoming closer to the man - even
evidenced by the epigraph, he built a close
relationship with The Professor. For a long time,
The Professor represented an aspect of discovery
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