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Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "36/65" Image includes the words: 'Only remember that the spirit of the snake, of the lion, is your spirit. | For it is only from yourself that you are aquainted with spirit at all. | Now of course that question is why have I given a snake just this spirit. | And the answer can only lie in the psycho-physical parallelism: If I were to look like the snake and to do what it does than I should be such and such. | The same with the elephant, the fly, the wasp. But the question arises even here, my body is not on the same level as that of the wasp and of the snake (and surely it is so), so that I have neither inferred from that of the wasp to mine nor from mine to that of the wasp. Bendeke nur, das der Geist der Schlange, des Lowen, dein Geist ist. | Denn nur von dir her kennst du uberhaupt den Geist. | Es ist nun freiltch die Frage, warum habe ich der Schlange gerade diesen Geist gegeben. | Und die Antwort hierauf kann nur im psychophysichen

Blind embossed chop mark: "ea"

Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: "Eduardo Paolozzi 1965"