Yesterday downtown this woman walked past & she had on shorts & little flats which is not particularly surprising. But also she had on tights, white, just on the one leg. The other leg was bare. The effect was startlingly superheroic considering that she was short & hunchy & muttering to people as she passed them.
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The following are inauspicious subjects and should never be painted, except in the assembly halls of kings and in temples: bulls with their horns immersed in the sea; men under the surface of the water, but with their hands sticking out; ugly men; and people who are grief-stricken on account of death, war, or the burning ground.
�DPriyabala Shah, Visnudharmottara Pur��na
quoted in James Elkins, Stories of Art
With their hands sticking out!
