Nymphe (Schiksa)

"Before war, our peasant girl’s ankles were much thicker than now", comments the titled protagonist of "The Resurrection of Maltravers" by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, talking to his brother, both of them having survived (with ambiguity) the massacres of World War I. The thought of a Schiksa, a certain one, meaning all of it, is behind this portrait. She is energetic, she is full of life. She is a wellspring, an ingenuous rural Deity of a brook. A local Deity, yet her life is all, when you meet her. Someway, this Schiksa is sacred. Impure, yet captivating and seducing beyond limits. Let her be, pure and impure at the same, unpretentious, naively wearing her beauty and her youth.