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Black-and-white scene with cardboard costume and paper goose

Black-and-white scene with cardboard costume and paper goose
Black-and-white scene with cardboard costume and paper gooseSource: He Fa on Hugo Ball

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A fictional black-and-white stage shows a seated person in a tall paper hat and cylindrical cardboard costume beside someone crouching towards an origami goose. Small paper birds hang overhead among scattered sheets, while curtains and wooden supports emphasise the costume's angular joints and folded construction.

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  • Story setting: 1916, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich.

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  • He Fa on Hugo Ball｜A Goose Ate the Full StopEnglish

    Caption on that page: The goose pecked open the cardboard. Ball could bend his knees again. 1916 gelatin-silver photography and stage-trick vocabulary

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    Kneeling beside Ball, He Fa opens a cardboard leg shell and guides a paper goose to peck its round fasteners; Ball sits with his arms and knees free among paper fish, birds and mice.

  • 何发论胡戈·巴尔｜有只鹅吃掉了句号中文

    Caption on that page: 鹅一路啄开纸板，巴尔的膝盖也能弯了。 1916年银盐照片与舞台机关语汇

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    何发单膝跪地拉开巴尔的硬纸腿壳，引纸鹅啄开圆形纸扣；巴尔坐着伸展胳膊和膝盖，纸鱼纸鸟纸鼠围在四周。

  • He Fa on XXX | Twelve fantastical journeys through timeEnglish
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    Kneeling beside Ball, He Fa opens a cardboard leg shell and guides a paper goose to peck its round fasteners; Ball sits with his arms and knees free among paper fish, birds and mice.

  • 何发论 XXX｜十二场奇幻穿越戏中文
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    何发单膝跪地拉开巴尔的硬纸腿壳，引纸鹅啄开圆形纸扣；巴尔坐着伸展胳膊和膝盖，纸鱼纸鸟纸鼠围在四周。