Max Ernst: A Week of Kindness or The Seven Deadly Elements

A Bad Translation by Emily Murphy

Page One: The woman featured in this illustration is casting a love potion using the rooster and the pearl its sitting on to create an inhuman lover, because the man lying in the doorway isn't treating her very well.

Page Two: The bedridden woman's demigod bird-lover has come to visit her in her final moments. She probably has a bad fever or something but its ye olden times so that won't end well.

Page Three: The woman has died and the demigod and his friend are laying her to rest, while her spirit rises upward from her coffin and rejoices in its newfound freedom and nakedness.

Page Four: The two demigods discuss how badly the body smells, whilst the woman's spirit hangs around for a bit clinging to her lover's shoe in hopes that he doesn't forget her.

Page Five: They didn't hide the body very well.

Page Six: The woman's human friends and/or family block the demigod from entering their room as he tries to apologize, believing that he had done this to their loved one. He's sad.