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.:. Man Walking Downstairs Backwards, Turning, Walking Away While Carrying Rock Plate 151, Animal Locomotion Life is so complicated, demanding our full attention. This busy man eyes his rock like a cook with a fresh souffie or a scientist with somebody's brains to examine. All the while he's feeling for that last step with his foot. Under stress, his quirkiness becomes clear. On his head is a black silk coolie cap, the same kind worn by the Woman Walking Up Incline Carrying One Bucket. They together are our strange Jack and Jill. Imagine them meeting, each naked as a stare but for those little round caps and her sunglasses. Did she think she'd go unnoticed, or what? Jack had his eye on her from the first day. Kindred spirit! Now, after work they meet in a cafe, shy, slightly embarrassed to see the other with clothes on. Why not, they say, leaning over their tea, leave this routine of act and photograph behind? This knotty modern world's too perilous. They'll simplify, take to the countryside. They'll bring their oaken bucket and rock rock, wear their black coolie caps and nothing else. They'll stay one day or fashion a long life free and easy ... 0 wouldn't it be nice! 43 ...

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