Ah, come my friend, up to the rooftop, where we may take a load off our feet, fill our pipes with bitter-sweet opium and dream of what is and what might've been.
Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ — Dream of a Eunuch — 1874
As a eunuch, that putto with the knife has great significance.
That's what I like about the 1870s, high on metaphor, low on subtlety.
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