Author:  Mark Helprin
Book:    Winter's Tale
Viewed: 40 - Published at: 7 years ago

For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it "Portrait of a Dead Camel Dancing on the Roof of a Steambath.

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