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Translated from the Catalan Pigments To mix together two adjectives:Blend them by brush— Cadmium yellowwith Prussian blue— until you have achievedtheir expressive tonality. To compose the verdantcompose…… Read more “Sharon Dolin, Pigments by Gemma Gorga”
Susan Bernofsky, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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