Pierrot and Columbina

"I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other."

"And then of a sudden I saw... a black Pierrette with her face painted white. She was fresh and charming, the only masked figure left and a bewitching apparition that I had never in the course of the night seen before. While in everyone else the late hour showed itself in flushed and heated faces, crushed dresses, limp collars and crumpled ruffs, the black Pierrette stood there fresh and neat with her white face beneath her mask. her costume had not a crease and not a hair was out of place. Her ruff and pointed cuffs were untouched. I rushed towards her, put my arms around her and drew her into the dance. Her perfumed ruff tickled my chin. Her hair brushed my cheek." Der Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse Pg. 199-200