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Wednesday, December 03, 2003

The Naked and the Nude

Terry Teachout points out an enjoyable post at 2 blowhards by a former nude model. Who knew it was such hard work? (Actually, I did. Leigh roped me into modeling a couple of times for $25 an hour for a photographer she was working with. The contact sheets are awful, but the experience was fun.)

I'm reminded of Robert Graves:
For me, the naked and the nude
(By lexicographers construed
As synonyms that should express
The same deficiency of dress
Or shelter) stand as wide apart
As love from lies, or truth from art.

Lovers without reproach will gaze
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will see
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess when
She mounts her lion among men.

The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin.

The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometime nude!


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