Louis Wain, "The Waiter" (1898)
"Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else -- and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?" -- Djuna Barnes, "Becoming Intimate with the Bohemians" (1916)
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