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This photograph from the 1880's, predates the Luigi Pirandello story Into the Sketch for which it is now generally thought to have been the inspiration. Pirandello embellished this routine scene of a semiology lesson in which the vital organs are marked upon a patient, into a fanciful story of love and death. The author would have us believe that we are witnessing the dramatic moment when the anaemic Raffaella steps forward as the voluntary subject, to the shame of her ex lover Riccardo who is amongst the medics, and insists that his current girlfriend who is 'blond, beautiful and looks like a foreigner', carry out the procedure. No sooner has the heart been inscribed than Raffaella runs from the room and returning to her apartment plunges a knife into its centre. |
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