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Nonetheless, the initial trompe l'oeil is there.
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).
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.
And not a very accurate one either: for instance, in a trick that's repeated throughout the graphic, the fund-raising entries for Monday, June 17 form a solid block of type, but this is a trompe l'oeil achieved only by leaving a bunch of hours out of the "daybook"'s format.
Some of the most spectacular examples of the genre, which got its name in 17 th -century Holland, depict great mounds of fruit and fabric that fool the eye ( trompe l'oeil ) so completely that we can practically smell them and feel them.