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Youngest daughter of famed Swiss Composer Ernest Bloch (TIME, April 23. 1934 et ante). Lucienne Bloch was born in Geneva in 1909. Her first ambition was to be an Alpinist. She never thought of being an artist until at the age of 11 she suddenly began illustrating "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat." Father Bloch, delighted, bought her a paint box, later sent her to the Cleveland School of Art. In Europe she first studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle, then painted at the Beaux Arts, felt acutely uncomfortable with both. It was only when she went to Rome that...
...Agues Eve. Outside, the owl, the hare, even the sheep, are trembling in a freezing moor. A glowing chamber on this holy night is ringing with the revelry of a thousand guests; and somewhere old dames are telling an old story over again: How on this eve thoughtful maids "If ceremonies they did aright . . . " might win sight of their lover in their dreams. The fair Madeline, full of this whim is preparing in her chamber. Already Porphyro stands beside the castle gates. An old beldame speaks...
With a will the Nazi youths shaved the manicurist bald as an owl. Smearing her with tar, they hung around her neck a sign I PROSTITUTED MYSELF TO A JEW, dragged her up & down the streets of Beuthen until they were tired, finally...
...That's just the trouble," answered the old Owl blinking its eyes for it was getting sleepy, "pretty soon we won't have anything to wonder about...
...There you go already," said the Owl, a bit perturbed at Alice's logic, "you're saying it will be wonderful not too wonder, but, as you ought to be able to see, a thing that is wonderful is simply something that's full of wonder. Consequently, is there's nothing to wonder at, nothing will be wonderful...