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Cow orking is a ceremony held on the second Sunday in Advent in the village of Loose Chippings in Devonshire. The lad judged to have presented the best-orked cow may claim a yard of ale at the village inn on every new moon until Lammas.

In its present form the practice only dates to the 19th century, but it is believed to derive from a game played by mediaeval bridegrooms to pass the time until their brides had finished with the droit de seigneur.

Question to ponder then: If the first people to make recognisable art made representational art, what impulse moved their descendents to stop doing that and make "primitive" art instead?

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