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One and all are dressed in clothes of the same color. Their hair is not shaved but cropped a little above the ears, from one of which the tip is cut off […] How could a man so cover his flight as to elude the observation when he resembles ordinary people in no part of his attire — unless he were to run away naked? Even then his ear would betray him in his flight!
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© 2012 Miriam Eliav-Feldon
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Eliav-Feldon, M. (2012). The Body as Evidence. In: Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291370_6
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