Gorilla Carrying off a Woman  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Gorilla Carrying off a Woman[1] is a sculpture by Emmanuel Frémiet. Although Gorilla won Frémiet a medal of honour at the Salon of 1887, this work now evokes ridicule for its depiction of a gorilla abducting a nude woman, presumably with the intention of raping her - something totally alien to actual gorilla behaviour. Nonetheless, this act has somehow caught the public's imagination as witnessed by the repeated popularity of the King Kong theme, which is in itself an elaboration on the beauty and the beast motif.

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