Misplaced Devotion: Tric-trac Players by Candlelight
The Dutch title (Verkeerden IJver) is a pun on the name for a gaming board (verkeerbord). It warns of the dangers of becoming addicted to tric-tac, and the legend translates loosely as: ‘How easily one’s hard-won earnings are lost, to the idle benefit of the landlord and his wife. These people spend day and night in the piss-tavern, while their children and wives do without at home.’