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viewing old photos of the murder i wonder why i believed the body was ever alive the animation stilted stiff and often withdrawn wooden and wondering how was it that i missed the mockery of life in the fall the mannequin sprawled there, on display until the layers gave way to dust and crumbled sliding slantwise before shuffling off there was no murder save for the harlequin cracked paint and flawed
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This is intriguing. It makes me think of those mannequins in museums which sometimes look so lifelike from afar, but quite ghastly up close.
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That uncanny valley thing. Shudder.
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And don’t get me started about wax figures. Nope. Nope. Nope.
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