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.

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.

a short-strawed variety of rice

A noëtic society is a society based on noësis.