Caravaggio Rest on Flight to Egypt painting

Caravaggio Rest on Flight to Egypt paintingGeorge Frederick Watts Orlando Pursuing the Fata Morgana paintingGeorge Frederick Watts Watts Choosing painting
hands. Curtains part behind him, allowing female attendants in shiny pink shorts and singlets to wheel out a fearsome cabinet: man--sized, glass-- fronted, internally--illuminated -- the microwave oven, complete with Hot Seat, known to Club regulars as: Hell's Kitchen. "All _right_," cries Pinkwalla. "Now we really cookin."
Attendants move towards the tableau of hate-figures, pounce upon the night's sacrificial offering, the one most often selected, if truth be told; at least three times a week. Her permawaved coiffure, her pearls, her suit of blue. _Maggie-maggie-maggie_, bays the crowd. _Burn-burn-burn_. The doll, -- the _guy_, -- is strapped into the Hot Seat. Pinkwalla throws the switch. And O how prettily she melts, from the inside out, crumpling into formlessness. Then she is a puddle, and the crowd sighs its ecstasy: done. "The fire this time," Pinkwalla tells them. regains the night.