Naked Nude

Naked NudeFidelman listlessly doodled all over a sheet of yellow paper. Odd indecipherable designs, inkspotted blotched words, esoteric ideographs, tormented figures in a steaming sulphurous lake, including a stylish nude rising newborn from the water. Not bad at all, though more mannequin than Cnidian Aphrodite. Scarpio, sharp-nosed on the former art student's left, looking up from his cards, inspected her with his good eye."Not bad, who is she?""Nobody I really know.""...