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The surreal paintings of self-taught Indonesian artist Roby Dwi Antono: themes of solitude and loss inspired by 90s pop culture and 19th century realism.To wit:

Piece of September (pic 3) is a tribute to his brother who passed away in 2011, with family members symbolized by figures sitting at a table eating a live crocodile. Roby represents himself as a gloomy rabbit, his mother as a three-headed girl, his father as a figure with a crab claw head and his deceased brother as a suited figure with a lily for a head symbolizing purity, simplicity and spirituality.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Mark Twain changed the rules of American fiction when, in Huckleberry Finn, he let a redneck kid tell his story in his own dialect. But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules to break as he struggled for years to tell his own life story. Now, 100 years after his death, Mark Twain’s autobiography is being published the way the author himself wished — from dictated stories collected by the University of California, Berkeley’s Mark Twain Project. The first volume (of three) is out now, and the long-anticipated release is drawing attention from Twain-lovers around the world.

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