June 23, 1916.
For that evening's reading, he had
made himself a special costume.
His legs were in a shiny blue cylinder
which reached up to his hips so that he looked like an obelisk.
Over it, he wore a huge coat collar cut out of cardboard,
scarlet on the inside, gold on the outside.
It was fastened at the neck in such a way
that he could give the impression
of wing-like movement by raising and lowering his elbows.
He also wore a high, blue and white striped witchdoctor's
hat.