The Rape  

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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)
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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)

The Rape [1] (1934) by René Magritte depicts a faceless woman --her face is replaced by her torso. She is mute, her mouth replaced by her pubic hair.

The painting [2] was also used for the cover of André Breton's pamphlet What is Surrealism?.

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