A drowned doll, to face downwards

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  • face down: the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder (27- 93 AD) wrote that drowned men float face upwards and women face down
  • face down; from Twain's Huckleberry Finn, chapter 4 "I knowed mighty well that a drownded man don’t float on his back, but on his face. So I knowed, then, that this warn’t pap, but a woman dressed up in a man’s clothes." In other words, the oppsoite of Pliny's theory