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Invocation

Figure of Enchantment

Objective Disorder

Age of Gold

Landscape/Portrait

The Best Medicine

Faith Figure

Scenes from Stendhal

Scenes from Flaubert

Wing Three-Quarter

La Vie en Rose

Strokes

Action and Reaction

Initiation

Ah the Taste of a Stranger’s Mouth!

The Picture with the Bear

Figure with No Past

Figure of Achievement

Messages

Trees or Fly-Fishing

When You Go

Scenes from Gautier

The Sweet Life

Last Resorts

Figure of Opportunity

End of Eternity

Jerome

Into Battle

Newton at Woolsthorpe

Interpreting Flaubert

Death of Rimbaud

Jean Genet in Norwich

Lenin on the Thérémin

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