- a doubleshot, please!

((Most már múzeumban mutogatják Flaubert szentlelkét. Kettő is van belőle. Mindkettő molyos. És nem tudni, melyik volt az eredeti, melyik a másolat. Bagatell. Semmi kétértelműség, csak papagájtoll, üvegszem, gipszcsőr meg fűrészpor. A képzelet talán lát még valamit, beletörődik a néző, tudja, hogy semmi sem mozdul már többé. Ennyi az egész. Persze mégis őrzik őket, biztos, ami biztos, nehogy elszálljanak.))

“Then, crouched on top of one of the display cabinets, what did we see but Another Parrot. Also bright green, also, according to the gardienne & also a label hung on its perch, the authentic parrot borrowed by GF when he wrote UCS!! I ask the gardienne if I can take it down & photograph it. She concurs, even suggests I take off the glass case. I do, & it strikes me as slightly less authentic than the other one: mainly because it seems benign, & F wrote of how irritating the other one was to have on his desk. As I am looking for somewhere to photograph it, the sun comes out – this on a cloudy, grouchy, rainy morning – & slants across a display cabinet. I put it there & take 2 sunlit photos; then, as I pick the parrot up to replace it, the sun goes in. It felt like a benign intervention by GF – signalling thanks for my presence, or indicating that this was indeed the true parrot.” – When Flaubert took wing in The Guardian UK