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The Alkahest

CHAPTER V
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The fact is, society wants to change its skin.

Everything is being sacrificed, even the old methods of art.

When people insist on going so fast, nothing is conscientiously done.

During my last visit to Paris I was taken to see the pictures in the Louvre.

On my word of honor, they are mere screen-painting,--no depth, no atmosphere; the painters were actually afraid to put colors on their canvas.


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