At the Pompidou-Metz: ‘Lacan: L’Exposition’
Francis Gooding, 9 May 2024
Culebras, or ‘snakes’, come in a twist of three, tightly plaited and bound by ribbon. Their history is obscure: perhaps the style arose because parsimonious cigar-factory bosses wanted to restrict the cigar-rolling torcedores to an allotment of three cigars a day; perhaps it was an innovation from the tobacco plantations of the Philippines, intended to yield a moderately faster...