Zachary Jacobus

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“The Perfect Crime” by Zachary Jacobus

Submitted to Contest #44

Tortured. Grimacing. Contorted. Raw. Disfigured. Pale. Wrenched. Grotesque. All of these captured some ethos of Mr. Groff. But the best descriptor, the best impersonation of the energy that propelled his person, was in the works of Egon Schiele. Despite what the reader may imagine, he was not an ugly man. Not in the slightest. Instead, like in Self-portrait with his head down, The Family, and Pair embracing (all by Schiele), his anguished form reflected a primal vitality in his sinewy, stretched features. This vitality had not gone unnoticed...

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