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Millais completed Ophelia in eighteen fifty-one, and it has never released its hold. Shakespeare's Ophelia, driven mad by grief, slips beneath a stream. He answers not with horror but beauty — a brook brimming with thirty precise species.
Ophelia lies suspended between two worlds.
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