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.:. Woman Emptying Bucket of Water on Seated Companion 42 Plate 408, Animal Locomotion It's been tits and ass from the beginning, lovely young women drenching one another orflopping naked into bed. So sniffs the critic, who has never in his life known when to laugh. One stark naked woman huddles in a tub. Her head bowed, she prays the water won't be cold, prays her papa in Minnesota will please never see this photo. Up steps woman number two, twice as naked. Her prop, a big bucket, is filled with ice-cold water. When it hits the girl in the tub darts up, nipples cold, becoming the small dark eyes the critic cannot tum away. 0 Aphrodite risingfrom the sea. Or some abstraction like that for this freezing Minnesota girl. Let him see her, like bawdy Muybridge behind his cameras, laughter booming, Lovely, ladies, right lovely-undying Art! Let the critic yearn and go to her, flopped naked in the sun. Let him ask her name, offer his coat. Let her thank him, no. ...

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