#564 Dawn in the Antipodes (2)

If you accept at first, & any unforeseen
event keeps you from fulfilling your 
engagement, write a second note, this 
in naïve handwriting, neither precisely 
the work's title nor one of its pictorial 

elements. If circumstances render it 
necessary to write, it may be sent with
perfect propriety an hour before the 
time appointed. But this is still only 
the least of the ambiguities. There are 

two pipes. Or rather must we not say, 
two drawings of the same pipe? It is 
well to carry in your pocket a small
pincushion, &, having unfolded it, to 
pin it at the belt, else it will be very apt

to slip down, if your dress is of silk or
satin. This "lower" pipe is wedged 
solidly in a space of visible reference 
points. On the other hand, the higher 
pipe lacks coordinates. If, by the 

carelessness or awkwardness of your 
neighbors or the servants,  the pipe 
floats behind the painting & the easel, 
more gigantic than it appears, then 
let it pass without any further notice.

Sources:
This Is Not a Pipe, by Michel Foucault
The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette (1860), by Florence Hartley