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originally occupied by the blue and white checker inlaid
majolicatopped table.
Describe them.
One: a squat stuffed easychair, with stout arms

extended and back slanted to the rere, which, repelled in
recoil, had then upturned an irregular fringe of a
rectangular rug and now displayed on its amply
upholstered seat a centralised diffusing and diminishing
discolouration. The other: a slender splayfoot chair of
glossy cane curves, placed directly opposite the former, its
frame from top to seat and from seat to base being
varnished dark brown, its seat being a bright circle of
white plaited rush.
What significances attached to these two chairs?
Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of
circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence.
What occupied the position originally occupied by the
sideboard?
A vertical piano (Cadby) with exposed keyboard, its
closed coffin supporting a pair of long yellow ladies’ gloves
and an emerald ashtray containing four consumed
matches, a partly consumed cigarette and two discoloured
ends of cigarettes, its musicrest supporting the music in the
key of G natural for voice and piano of Love’s Old Sweet

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