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On reading Cavalli late at night
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The more bored you are, the more attached you get.
I'm so bored, I no longer want to die.

The table turns towards Cavalli. She's nowhere to be noticed. I notice an unfamiliar Selbstporträt instead, that of Björn Breitholtz.
Next to it, on page 241 of the same volume, the portrait of a young woman.

The unfinished Cavalli volume beneath a postcard with a view on the Dolomiti del Catinaccio, a mountain range somewhere north of Trente. The Cavalli volume, a 2018 Penguin with on page 86 The more bored you are, a line from Pigre divinita e pigra sorte, is half on top of a book with a massive collection of Cas Oorthuys pictures. The more bored you are, the more attached you get. Essais critiques by Roland Barthes and the Editions de minuit of Heinrich Müller's Hamlet-machine are on top of the other half.

The Leica edition at the left bottom corner is that of 1967–6. It has a selfportrait of Björn Breitholtz on page 240. Next a pile of unidentified volumes.
A heavy shadow beneath a portrait of the dark-haired girl. Spats of oil paint. Scratches.

Some more unfinished volumes. The one with Cavalli on top of it is Birds of Rio Grande do sul Brazil, Part 1, Rheidae Through Furnaricidae.
Somewhere to the left La Table by Francis Ponge.

The main volume, partly hidden beneath a range of postcards, is a DBZ–baufachbücher edit from Bertelsmann Fachverlag, published in 1968, Einfamilienhäuser Bungalows Ferienhäuser : Offene Wohnformen. The blue is bleu de Sèvres, by Williamsburg.