text: A relief to turn from these pictures , which seem to prefigure our own sexually anxious age , to such comical dreams of resurrection as Spencer 's exuberant The Dustman ( 1934 ) , in which the Cookham garbage man has returned from the dead and is cradled like a baby in his wife 's arms , while neighborhood children offer gifts of empty cans and other trash .
  
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  The pictures went from sexual to comical .