Since he had read "The Medici Fountain" Part of the book of Joseph Kessel "The Tower of Woe "at fifteen, the young Angelo, a student in fine arts, could not help but admire the fountain hidden under ivy after a pond in a corner of the Jardin du Luxembourg Paris. It represents Acis, a shepherd holding in her arms white Galatea. Above, the cyclops Polyphemus, jealous rival, crushed under a rock. The scene is dramatic. Angelo him, suddenly fell in love with the tenderness of the couple.
love with the beauty of the lines, the disposal of body, sensual vibe, the voluptuousness of two bodies entwined. Love of grace, faces, beautiful proportions of the whole, but especially in love with the gracious mistress. One felt that the artist had been divinely inspired.
blow, mortal blow in memory of his brain, because since Angelo tried in vain to reconstruct every moment of his life the same magic. Alas, too many disadvantages, first it was unlike any in the beautiful Adonis, and then find where the silent marble female representation? In nightclubs? Student or professional relationships? The impossible ideal is not in the court of mortals.
Many years passed, hopes to hopes, chess chess, he finally resolved to accept his fate, the impossibility such an embrace.
He only then to come every week to sit on the inaccessible desire.
In the Luxembourg Gardens, the Medici Fountain, immutable, always offered to passers stunned his perfect appearance.
Angelo, crushed by time, growing old, or eighty years, always alone, his reason had left him.
MT
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