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smile in lines 11 and 12; in the lines where we are told of Holofemes, who was seduced
by Judith and beheaded after he fell into a drunken stupor; and John the Baptist, who was
beheaded at the instigation of Salome’s mother, Herodias.
4 Hazo suggests that the poet leaves like a run-down toy, a valentine of the legendary
Russian folk character, Petrushka (46).
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