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New Moon (Again): Great Beast, Scarlet Woman

A painting: delicate, wispy, and muted except for the red garb of the titular whore, topless on a multiheaded beast.
Whore of Babylon (1809) by one of my personal idols: the poet, illustrator, and heretic William Blake.

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