The body survives the soul

p 558, wood-cut, Hughes-Stanton, 48 x 124 mm

Nude male and female figures, both fallen, heads at left and limbs entangled, small figure fleeing top right.

p 486 [tr ed p 502] - 'My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the wind of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.'

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