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Bow

These right angles are all wrong.

Heather Havrilesky
Jan 22, 2021
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Angelic Pleasures (1943) by Dorothea Tanning

Bones aren’t straight arrows, they curve gently like a bow: Pull, don’t push, let go and watch your energy transferred into something more rigid and rote than you are, aimed narrowly at one point on a plane. That’s not you. Your bones arch sweetly like the lines of a harp, waiting for the heavens to part, wait…

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