In Carr's version, they enjoy a single night of sensuous escape ("I hope he likes stretch marks"), but Agamemnon, fearing that her race will revive, has already arranged for the murder of her youngest son, Polydorus, whose corpse will add to what Hecuba, in typically graphic style, refers to as "the dung heap of limbs, heads, hearts, necks – necks I loved and kissed".
It is undeniable that most of Degas's women are faceless and abject, foreshortened heaps of limbs and buttocks, but ultimately it is less insulting to women to show their bodies coarsened by privation and hard work, by age and ill health, than it is to show them forever delectable and young.
He had declined anesthesia, Slater recalled, and after the severed arm was placed in a "ghastly heap of shattered limbs," he asked to see it one more time to bid it farewell.
Outside, teenagers scrape rust off metal or slice hair and faces off dolls, tossing them into a disconcerting heap of pink vinyl limbs and torsos.
He repeats this apology at the opening of the show – and again on the Sydney Opera House stage where he gives a lecture entitled: "How to be an artist (just like me)." Most recognisable in his female alter ego, Claire, Perry today has squeezed his six-foot-something frame – a jumbled heap of long, gangly limbs – into more manly attire.
A pair of bronze angels that never made it to the cathedral tympanum lay on a table in a roiling heap of baroque drapery and limbs.
One of the strangest monuments to Hurricane Sandy's lethal power is an ever-growing mound in Cunningham Park in Queens, an unwieldy heap of tree trunks, splintered limbs and leafy branches.
The book has marvellous accounts of the Goma camps, theatres of charity by day and strategic garrisons at night, and the Murray Town camp in Freetown, where, in 2002, children who had suffered amputations by the rebels were lodged amid heaps of surplus artificial limbs sent from abroad.
Whitman, profoundly affected by seeing the wounded soldiers and the heaps of their amputated limbs, left for Washington on December 28 , 1862with the intention of never returning to New York.
One showed "Soccer as seen by Americans," a group of dainty chaps prancing lightly across the grass with purses dangling from their limp wrists, and the other, "American football as seen by Europeans," a heap of brutally moronic humanoids using severed limbs to batter each others' brains out.
