German Michaels: “You, accursed France, make sure I don’t break the terms of the peace treaty, and in the meantime I’ll inject some liquid in you for which I received the sales rights in Europe from the firm, “Lenin, Trotsky & Co.” in Moscow. (This is straightforward politics-as-contagion, but note the clystère, an ongoing theme.)
(Mucha, Warsaw, 1920)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 