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In particular, the widely
published etchings
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of the German Max Klinger.
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Here, his cycle of
eight developing studies
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entitled Eine Liebe,
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A Love.
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The technical brilliance
of Klinger's work,
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its painstakingly studied detail,
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its use of black and white masses,
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its fashionable though
superficially treated themes
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of eroticism and despair,
intrigue Munch
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and reinforces his desire
to treat a similar cycle
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on a far deeper
and more expressive level.
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I met a young woman
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on the street one evening.
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Her eyes attracted me.
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They were large childish eyes.
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I looked at her. She turned
and we walked together.
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"Do you want to come up?" I said.
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In my room she seemed
a little shabbily dressed
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and her face was a little harrowed.
But her eyes were beautiful.
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"Why did you come with me?" I said.
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"That's why I walk the streets," she said.
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Munch writes in his diary:
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"Ill, ill and lonely.
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"He wanted to put his tired head
on a soft lady's breast,
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"smell her perfume,
hear her heartbeat.
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"Feel her soft curved breasts
to his cheek.
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"And, when he looked up,
meet her look above him,