The Museum’s pieces which include this sofa, a pair of meridiennes (cat. no. 47), and an armchair (cat. no. 35) are some of the finest examples extant attributed to Belter’s shop.

The poems of 1920 deliberately and self-consciously seek to create an effect of unpersonality. The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.

a short-strawed variety of rice

A noëtic society is a society based on noësis.