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Posted By idyll 10 months, 1 week ago in Arts & EntertainmentThis is a fantastic book. We find out not only about the vicissitudes of Pavlova’s alimentary canal but also about the skeletal structure of her knees, the size of her arch, the height of her jumps, her “sensuous” lower lip and the slope of her “ravishing” shoulders. All this and a clear explanation of the layers of her ample soul. What more could one want to know about the ballerina, long dead, whose name evokes, more than any other, the art she practiced — the art that plumbs the depths of the physical to reach, on occasion, the mystical?
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"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and never get wet." - The Phantom Tollbooth
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