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Leppin once wrote: "Prague stays my greatest encounter. My poetic efforts have been ever provided by its conflicts, its mystery, its rat - catchers beauty with fresh meaning and motivation." It's this town of dim surfaces and unusual rot that forms the rear-drop of Severin's sensual activities and fateful encounters as he enters an environment of femmes fatales, Russian anarchists, dabblers in the occult and denizens of decadent salons. As Max Brod therefore aptly said: "Leppin was the certainly selected bard of the painfully vanishing aged Prague, its notorious debauched times and sidestreets, he was at the same time a slave of the devil and adorer of the Madonna."