In the bedroom, three pictures on the wall.

The first is a portrait of a clownish man, the second is an erotic engraving entitled The Peculiar Institution, the third is a woodblock print: a portrait of a woman sleeping.

She is cradled in a pink plasticized wool scarf around her neck, her hair in mass around her mouth, and her eyes half open. She is posing very still and strange, so that her right wrist is bent at an almost brutal angle, and her left elbow is turned to the front.

Young woman, how can I help you?