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Marsias always loses his arms.
The marbles are doomed to break. Time is to classical sculpture as river water is to the boulders at the bottom: an eroding current that softens the edges, and condemns the extremities, the most centripetal expressions of pathos, to disappear.
And with the fracture remains a pruned torso. The torso of the Belvedere and the olive tree that the wind has forced to accept the spherical shape by splitting its most protruding branches.
Without arms or legs, the body loses its gesture and devolves into a primordial form, a digestive tube, little more than an earthworm. …