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Despite Schapiro's legitimate caution against subsuming the play of profile and frontality under one western derived model of explanation, he offers an insight that seems to fit Lawrence's text: "The profile face is detached from the viewer and belongs with the body in action (or in an intransitive state) in a space shared with the profiles on the surface of the image. Loitering, like lagging and departing and a host of other intransitive verbs that we thoughtlessly abuse, needs a preposition. Home, as an intransitive verb, means "to go or return home"--as in, "The pigeon faithfully homed in on its destination. |
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