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More on Clichés and How to Avoid 'Em
Good morning! Today I'd like to do something I do every once in a while, when it's merited — share some reader mail. Every week I get responses to the columns I write here onThe Luminous Landscape. The responses to last week's column,Eschew Clichés, were so interesting that it would be a pity not to let you read a few of them. But first, a really astonishing development in the celebrated mystery of the nun's hand:

Mike,
In Donna Ferrato'sNun in Venice, I was also taken by the peculiar position of the nun's hand, in that she holds it in what seems a rather uncomfortable degree of flexion, with the small digits just slightly spread laterally. I then realized that this was not an expressive pose, but likely the result of a neurological injury.
The nun has what is called a "wrist drop". This is due to an injury of the main nerves (called the brachial plexus) which innervate the upper extremities. This injury is specific t...

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