"There have been, and continue to be, extreme circumstances in history when the human body was literally partitioned, but most occur during periods of war or terror, when “humanness,” as an idea, explodes into an animal existence that belongs, always to some prehistoric being: to mythical animals such as Hades's dog Cerebus in Bernini's sculpture, in which the animal stands for sheer brutality and violence.”Ingraham, Catherine. Architecture, animal, human the asymmetrical condition. Abingdon, UK New York, NY: Routledge, 2006.
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