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Let's see what you've chosen.
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"The Hair".
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"Wandering in Paris one sunny morning,
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I saw in an antique dealer's window
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an 18th century marquetry bureau,
rare and beautiful."
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If any words bother you, tell me.
You know what "marquetry" is?
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Yes, I know.
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"How singular is temptation!"
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"A need to possess comes over you,
gentle, almost timid,
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but which grows,
becomes violent and irresistible."
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"I bought the bureau
and put it in my room."
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"One evening, I realised
from the thickness of a panel,
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that there must be a secret drawer.
I spent all night searching."
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"I found it the next day by forcing
a blade into a cleft in the wood..."
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"All's well. He's listening.
And he seems to be enjoying the text. "
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"I saw, laid out on black velvet,
a wonderful tress of a woman's hair."
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"Yes, a long braid of golden hair,
almost red, bound by a gold string."
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"I was stunned, quivering, disturbed."
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"I held it gently, almost religiously."
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"At once, the tress unwound,
its golden waves tumbling to the floor,
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thick and light, soft and shining
like the fiery tale of a comet."
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"A strange feeling came over me..."