“The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
“It was during this final Parisian period of Rodenbach's life that his literary absorption in Bruges really rose and flowered. Bruges-La-Morte was the Paris… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
“The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses,… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
“Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise to a… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
