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Detail of the center panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, by Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1500. © Prado, Madrid / Bridgeman Images.
Flesh
Volume IX, Number 4 | fall 2016
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Miscellany
Andean legends tell of pishtacos, bogeymen who steal their victims’ fat. In colonial times they were said to be Franciscan monks who used the fat as church-bell grease or holy oil. By the 1960s they were sometimes represented as workers who used it to lubricate modern factory machinery or airplane engines.
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
- Anaïs Nin, 1935Lapham’s
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