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frozen in stone while an all-powerful and sardonic modern woman triumphs. The trinkets with which she is adorned emphasize her nudity and make her even more perverse. In its conquering march, it is the pig that sets the pace. In the work of Rops and that of many of his contemporaries, this animal has a strong diabolical and erotic charge. He is a "creature of the devil" because he stubbornly keeps his eyes riveted on the ground, never looking at the sky and he is the "sex beast" because, according to tradition, he is the only one of his kind to copulate for pleasure and not just for reproduction.
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fly away in what appears to be shock or horror. Rops refers to them as "Three loves – ancient loves – vanish in tears".
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