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When an author picks a landmark named after the devil for the title, one can anticipate a moral tale. Sand goes one better, with the whole first chapter is a bit of a dissertation on the use of art to teach moral lessons, contemplating an engraving by Holbein with death assisting a laborer to plough his field. To her mind, the idea that art can encourage people by suggesting that suffering is redeemed in death, offering punishment or reward, is limited, instead she thinks it is through the gentl
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