Instinctively, almost automatically, the average pair of eyes swipes right. But when reaching the far end, they spend 33 seconds exploring a perverse inferno in which people copulate with birds, a pig dons a nun’s wimple, and a set of bagpipes mimics a wilting penis and a bloated sac of testicles. The central section, which shows a polymorphous orgy that is about as shocking as a weekend of suburban wife-swapping in the 1960s, detains viewers for 26 seconds. The panel on the left depicts a blithe, bucolic Eden, where the average museum-goer spends only 16 seconds. Biomedical neuroengineers have recently noticed that when visitors to the Prado in Madrid pause in front of Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights they make short work of paradise and instead opt for perdition.
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