21 October

Born in 1894—Varvara Stepanova, Russian artist.

Above: Billiard players, 1920

Also, born in 1772, English poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye! and what then?