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.:. Woman Turning and Lifting Train Plate 232, Animal Locomotion Let's put to rest any momentary confusion: no big locomotive here. Here is that haunting model who appears in Woman Kneeling at Chair then Rising, Woman Pirouetting, Woman Jumping from Rock to Rock, and others. I've no doubt she shined brightest in the eye Muybridge cast over the men and women there to move before him. He recognized her lovely lasting form. Now my heart is set on her, a woman long since risen to heaven wearing only this transparent gown draped around her hips. What she lifts here is sheer as time, sheer as the imagination that moves back, behind the twelve cameras to stand with Muybridge. He's looking forward to seeing these negatives: what beauty they will show, they will show always. To me. But put to rest the notion she's not real, like that train nowhere in sight. She is real now and was then, but in different ways, in different eyes. Why I am so taken with her is clear: nothing does not flow from itself. Sheer skin cannot hold us in. 31 ...

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