They are eye-catching, awkward, and certainly seem to suggest the atmosphere Wallace grew up in on a one-block street near the big public university in Champaign-Urbana.
The facetious portrayal of rustic life, the camel as a papal legate speaking broken French, the animals riding on horses and recounting elaborate dreams, suggest the atmosphere of 13th-century France and foreshadow the more sophisticated "Nun's Priest's Tale" of Geoffrey Chaucer.
These are questions brought to mind by Bar Blanc, which belongs to a growing brood of establishments whose names suggest scruffier atmospheres and more modest menus than the places actually present.
That suggests an atmosphere of either intimidation or unwillingness to consider the case seriously.
However, the FA chairman Greg Dyke has suggested the atmosphere in Sao Paulo has been low key.
To re-create the old feel, she suggested, the atmosphere's depth could be artificially increased as the ship passes through.
A bookshelf was filled with political biographies and James Patterson novels, and paintings of hunting scenes and sailing vessels hung on the walls, suggesting the atmosphere of a men's club, or, as Coburn put it, a fraternity house.
Titled "The Angle of a Landscape," the first line of a Dickinson poem, the work suggests the atmosphere of Dickinson's writing room and her self-imposed solitude, as well as the fusion of landscape and larger religious questions in her poetry.
Gernot Böhme suggests that atmosphere should be the central focus of new aesthetics.
A lawyer for Mr Filin, Tatyana Stukalova, suggested the atmosphere of danger at the Bolshoi ran deeper.
