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Such objects, with their elliptical wit, return us to the dark side of still life; these bones and cages and tacks and thermometers offer a deadpan answer to what life is: C'est la vie.
Here in a glass case is Man Ray's Gift (1921): a clothes iron painted black with a row of 13 tacks glued headfirst into the face.
So he tacks on different ending by turning, in his own words, to "an unbelievably grim scenario."
It's a loopy little fantasy, belonging in the same genre as Dunne's classically overworked meditations on the Menendez case in Vanity Fair . (For example: "If Jose did stick needles and tacks into his son's thighs and buttocks, didn't Erik bleed?
I think it's one of the tacks Gerald Posner took in his book JFK book, Case Closed . My only answer is "No, they're not that smart.