Most of us know the biblical story of Lot and his incestuous daughters. Fine. But I wonder what, in this painting by the Surrealist Max Ernst, the scary-looking lady just got done doing ... Was she torturing him with a long slow tease? Did she sit on his face until he nearly passed out? Did she make him kiss her feet as he begged for release? It seems to me that cruel women (who rarely exist in the real world) serve (paradoxically) as a subtext for the best of art.
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