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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

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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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