Issue 130, Spring 1994
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Two old men, father-in-law and son-in-law, Liszt and Wagner,
are staying by Canal Grande
together with the agitate woman who is married to King Midas
the one who transforms everything he touches to Wagner.
The green cold of the sea penetrates through the floors of
the palace.
Wagner is a marked man, the well known Punch profile is more frayed than ever,
his face is a white flag.
The gondola is loaded down with their lives, two
round trips and one one-way.