Rodin’s The Walking Man always appealed to you because of that pigeon-toed stride. He has no thumbs at all, nor hands, nor arms, nor head, nor genitalia. Body parts deliberately left out. No distracting expressions of face or hands. Just a fragment: torso mounted on legs. The energy is there all the same. The features [...]
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