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THE MOTIF consisting of the image of the Mona Lisa placed on top of the human brain is chosen deliberately -
I wrote a book called the Identity of Man. I never saw the cover of the English edition until the book reached me in print. And yet the artist had understood exactly what was in my mind, by putting on the cover a drawing of the brain and the Mona Lisa, one on top of the other
Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, p.412
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