“Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.”
—Salman Rushdie, from The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt & Co., 1999)
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“RUSSIAN SILVER TUMBLER CUPS” MOSCOW | circa 1752/1757
[1] Chased with two rows of heart motifs on snakeskin ground above fluted lower section, gilt interior. [2] Chased with six rows of heart motifs on snakeskin ground, gilt interior tumbler. — 3″ diameter // 5 oz.
“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”
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““RUSSIAN SILVER TUMBLER CUPS”
MOSCOW | circa 1752/1757
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