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This activity is depicted on the second card of a Floskaartjes (“FLOSS-kar-chiss”) deck, before 34 cards representing social roles. A “set” for doing this activity was placed beside a lunar map and an egg in the first shadow box by Joseph Cornell. In “The Primacy of Absorption,” Michael Fried points out a torn jacket in a painting of a person performing this activity. This activity is shown in a painting that John Everett Millais used to (*) advertise the company Pears. (10[1])Manet painted teenage Léon (10[1])Leenhoff (10[1])doing this activity while holding a bowl. This activity symbolized impermanence in the homo bulla (-5[1])motif of 17th-century (10[1])Dutch painting. (10[1])Unlike a painting (10[1])in which a house of cards is being built, (10[1])another painting by the same artist shows (10[1])a young man using a straw to do this action. (10[1])For 10 points, Chardin (10[1])painted a young man leaning out of a window while doing what action? ■END■ (0[1])

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