35 consternation7 that she had presented it to the municipality of Bergamo which

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35 consternation7 that she had presented it to the municipality of Bergamo which had grateful genuinely relieved when his business commands took him to Rome, where identity and that of the famous picture might be lost sight o accepted it. He left the neighbourhood as u nobtrusi But he bore on his back the burden of the dead man's genius. k into his clothes unicipality and Deplis was unable to take a simple dip in the sea or river onr ater on nting himself one 40 day in the steaming corridor of a ur bath, he was a by the proprietor, who was a North Italian, and who emphatically refused to celebrated Fall of Icarus to be publicly on view without the permission of the munimore of Bergamo. nc widel Public interest and official vigilance i as the matter afternoon unless clothed up to the collar-bone in a substantial bathing garment. to the authorities of Bergamo conceived the idea that salt water might be inju masterpiece, and a perpetual injunction was obtained which debarred the muchly haras commercial traveller from sea bathing under any circumstances. Altogether, vently thankful when his firm of employers found him a new range of activities neighbourhood of Bordeaux. His thankfulness, however, ceased abruptly at Italian frontier. An imposing array of official force barred his departure, and he was t reminded of the stringent law, which forbids the e 50 the Franco- ern xportation of Italian works of art. A diplomatic parley ensued between the Luxemburgian and Italian GovernmentBut ble. But with the immovable in at one time the European situation became overcast with the possibilities of trou 55 the Italian Government stood firm; it declined to concern itself in the least fortunes or even the existence of Henri Deplis, commercial traveller, but was imr its decision that the Fall of Icarus (by the late Pincini, Andreas) at present the propery the municipality of Bergamo, should not leave the country "Meanwhile, the unhappy human background fared no better than before, and it was 60 not surprising that he drifted into the ranks of Italian anarchists. Four times at least he ws escorted to the frontier as a dangerous and undesirable foreigner, but he was always brought back as the Fall of Icarus (attributed to Pincini, Andreas, early Twentieth Century And then one day, at an anarchist congress at Genoa, a fellow-worker, in the heat of debate, broke a phial full of corrosive liquid over his back. The red shirt that he was wearing nition. His assailant was severely reprimanded for assaulting a fellow-anarchist and received seven years imprisonment for defacing a national art treasure. As soon as he was able to leave the 65 mitigated1 the effects, but the Icarus was ruined beyond r hospital Henri Deplis was put across the frontier as an undesirable alien "In the quieter streets of Paris, especially in the neighbourhood of the Ministry of Fine Arts, you may sometimes meet a depressed, anxious-looking man, who, if you pass him the time of day, will answer you with a slight Luxemburgian accent. He nurses the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo,11 and hopes that the French Government 70 may be persuaded to buy him. On all other subjects I believe he is tolerably sane."

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8. Correct Answer - 3

Nurses the illusion here measn that he he not thinking realistically.

9. Correct Answer - 4

The tattoo represents the the loss of control.

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