GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is made to the following authors and works: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (New York, 1981); Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies (New York, 1959); George Eliot, Middlemarch (London, 1872); Yasunari Kawabata, House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories (New York, 1969); Jean Nohain and F. Caradec, Le Petomane 1857–1945 (Los Angeles, 1967); Andrew Porter, liner notes from Handel: Arias for Durastanti (Los Angeles, 1992); Sir Bart Sacheverell Sitwell, Baroque and Rococo (New York, 1967).