Downstairs, Mama and Sestra sat on the couch like a two-member jury; Sestra watched me with slumberous amusement; Mama's face was awash with tears.
She's not quite sure about that redolent spoonful, and she doesn't have a clue to its possible ingredients, which include poverty, garbage, jazz, sex, slavery, and dancing crab demons, all breathed into existence by a slumberous earth mammy.
It's one thing to be a slumberous little farming community tucked way back in the hills.
So we move from a 1927 portrait of the jealous, jilted Olga as an enormous screaming mouth, to another, from 1932, of the teenage Marie-Thérèse Walter as a slumberous, pinheaded blimp, to a third, dated 1939, of Dora Maar — "the only one of Picasso's lovers who was his match in mind and temperament," according to the catalog — as a grinning, pulled-apart doll.
In fact I was less troubled by errors and (I presume) typos -- the Caravaggio boys with the ice cream hair might have "slumberous" eyes, but surely not "lumberous," as my copy says -- than by sections that seem quirkily contrarian rather than considered.
In slumberous mid-August thousands of visitors fidget and drift through the Museum of Modern Art, finding almost everything worth photographing and almost nothing worth more than a point-and-shoot glance.
In the end, the best guidebook to modernist Paris is the slumberous text of Finnegans Wake, whose last words are "PARIS, 1922-1939".
It is a curious sensation to lie on a sofa in the tropical night reading a novel in the home of its writer and to realise you are in the book's very setting: the sitting room with its mahogany furniture, lamps and shutters; and, outside, the veranda, the drumming of insects, moonlight, purple mountains, red rocks, "a slumberous sea murmuring above the reef" and the lights of Guadeloupe.
Ernst appears drugged or hypnotised, his head moving somnambulistically into various slumberous poses; eyes concealed under oval lids, he seems genuinely to be asleep, and dreaming.
"Arise from out the dewy grass; "Night is worn, "And the morn "Rises from the slumberous mass.
I don't know the answer, but if the notoriously squeamish and slumberous members of the Academy can pull themselves together and face "Monster," they should know whom to vote for as the best actress of the year.
