“If Dad let me paint a pair of lions on the wall at least it would look better,
kind of like that French jungle painting with the naked woman on the couch.”

- P minor blue

Like Erik Satie, Henri Rousseau speaks to me.
The Dream reminds me of one of Satie's Gnossienne.
Satie gave playing instructions with the character of a Rousseau painting.
Here's what he wrote for No. 6:
Avec conviction et avec une tristesse rigoureuse
("with conviction and with a rigorous sadness")

Erik Satie, Gnossienne No. 6

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