We know that Denise sniffed ether, had a fierce temper, and that concurrently with Alberto she had another lover: a man called Dédé le Raisin because he sold fruit in the street from a barrow. Alberto, Dédé, and Denise apparently got along well together, and upon occasion, it is said,

– Olivier Zahm Although we have often mentioned the plebeian bohème, a tough-guy tendency, a demagogic nature and nearly anarchistic leanings, here we can – and ought to – say, without fear of repetition or contradiction, that the avant-garde spirit is eminently aristocratic. – Renato Poggioli quoted, Charles A. Riley II, Aristocracy

thinking about Stravinsky’s “abyss of possibilities” … the dizziness he got from staring into which he stopped by returning to his “beloved” forms, meaning traditional, some might say aristocratic or élitist, or downright passé forms, where, he believed, the composer/artist enters into a great argument, with the art/music