From Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic:
Peckers and fannies…Why hadn’t all this occurred to her before? That all this sexual business is connected in the male imagination with — ornithology! In the history of the male sexual imagination the role of women was constantly to pull onto themselves, and then push off, birds of all shapes and sizes. From Zeus who forced himself on Leda in the form of a swan onwards. And, in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the swan — that unambiguous companion of women — transformed itself into a more discreet and smaller companion, a parrot!The slideshow of paintings that then runs through Beba’s head as she lies in a chocolate bath:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman with Parrot Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Woman with a Parrot Quirijn van Brekelenkam, An interior with a lute player and a woman holding a parrot Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot Eugene Delacroix, Woman with a Parrot Edouard Manet, Woman with Parrot Marcel Duchamp, Morceaux Choisis d’après Courbet Frida Kahlo, Me and My Parrots Rene Magritte, Pleasure
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