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Aural equivalents of these trompes l'oeil are socalled oronyms— trompes l'oreille —which Pinker describes in Language Instinct (New York, 1994, p. 188), citing such examples as, The stuffy nose can lead to problems The stuff he knows...; It's a doggy-dog world It's a dog-eat-dog world; A girl with colitis goes by A girl with kaleidoscope eyes (Beatles' song); Gladly the cross-eyed bear Gladly the cross I'd bear (traditional Christian hymn).
Modern translingual jeux d'esprit are Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames , by Luis d'Antin von Roote (New York, 1967) in which English masquerades as French; Brigid Brophy, In Transit (London, 1969); and the ultimate: Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with their ostensibly English yet polyvalent, transliteral letter and word groups which punningly play over no fewer than fifty to sixty languages in Cheshire-catlike, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't trompes l'oeil .
Facing an amphitheater auditorium is a fixed décor of classical Roman statuary and columns that looks far deeper than its 4 m (14 ft), a permanent stage “curtain” of trompe l’oeil depicting the ancient streets of Thebes.
There was space in that little white chapel at the start of the show to include an example of the trompe l'oeil American masters William Harnett and John Peto, contemporaries of Cézanne's, who are just as much founders of modern still life as Cézanne, and whose more playful spirit is just as tangible in the works at MoMA.
When a trompe l'oeil shaving brush and a match turn up later in the show in Magritte's Personal Values (1952), they have an oneiric suggestiveness quite in contrast to Murphy's flat factuality.
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