A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.
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<div align="justify">Picasso’s _La Mort d’Arlequin_ resides in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The harlequin, widely regarded as Picasso’s alter-ego, is dead. Two spectral figures hover over him. Are they the harlequin’s loved ones come to mourn? Angels come to judge? Or perhaps they are the remnan…