Roquairol

He becomes deeply enthralled with German Expressionism, rides his bike to the Brücke Museum in Grunewald, paints: a child in the stairway, a Turkish father with his son, Iggy Pop in front of bare trees, halfway decent imitations of Müller, Kirchner and Heckel, whose woodcut portrait of Kirchner, Roquairol of 1917, is mimicked on the cover of "Heroes".

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And as for her brother, the madcap Roquairol, who in his thirteenth year had shot at himself with suicidal intent because the little Countess

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Thither often came Albano; thither also came Roquairol, to bask in the wondering admiration that Rabette,

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The death of Roquairol lay like a blight between the lovers.

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It was on the night of an inauguration ball that Albano, having poured out his heart to Roquairol in a letter, met his long-hoped-for friend, and sealed their affections by declaring that he would never wed Linda de Romeiro, whom it was thought Count Gaspard had designed for his son's bride, and for whom Roquairol's youthful passion had not been extinguished.

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And to him in his agony came the tormenting news that the fickle Roquairol had deserted Rabette.

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