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Hunter Dukes
Hunter Dukes is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Peterhouse

The Eyes of Statues
by Hunter Dukes| Critics Page
Statues have a tendency to flicker between the quick and the dead. Lucian of Samosata describes a young man who spent his days before the Venus of Praxiteles, his sight fixed uninterruptedly upon her.
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