Toby supposed he was nine when he started wondering, but there was no Internet yet, so he had to go to libraries to see the art books. Other kids he knew went for the biology books, but those were so clinical. He knew from his museum visits with his parents that art was far dirtier than science. One day, he sneaked his first volume of Picasso, which was probably the wrong move there in terms of establishing a uniform understanding of anatomy. He went from there on to the Courbets and then the O’Keeffes and was very, very confused for a long time until ultimately he looked at one of the anatomy
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