in the front part there were two lime green sofas, in the window a beautifully typographed hairdressing menu offered 'Japanese Straightening' in two varieties along with other, more exotic elaborations.
I was transfixed by a beautiful Japanese woman reading a magazine, the blonde sections in her black Japanese-straight hair were tucked behind her ears creating yellow triangles, then I noticed the man behind the counter, massive like a Sumo wrestler. Green-haired, his ear lobes had the sort of piercing that makes a really big hole and held what looked like the spooney parts of soup spoons. Edward Lear popped into my mind at this point, which is why I have illustrated this story with the Dong and his luminous nose
The Story Behind Edward Hopper’s Iconic Painting, “Nighthawks”
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Louis Shadwick at Literary Hub: Edward Hopper had certainly started
Nighthawks, his iconic vision of a sparsely populated New York diner aglow
with artific...
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