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From afar you can make out the continual murmurings of the white women of Paris
Telling you how they feel about themselves, their dreams, their memories, their emotional extremities
It's a language without borders, it has elation, also it has anguish in it
Occasioned by having to live in a world with white men in it, and other kinds as well
From the beginning, or maybe even farther back than that -- them, them
And worse, and this is not a failure of compassion, it has a poetry
Of convenience, real life among the ultimately unavoidable adjacent physical bodies in the human
Zoo always reduces to a mere matter of conveniences in the end
And this extension of the middle inevitably seems an unbearable postponement of the end
But the conveniences in any case are never in any way simple
Particularly during the dog days, the dog days.
Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, protest along West Florrisant Street in Ferguson, Missouri. More than 100 people were arrested today during protests in Ferguson and the St. Louis area: photo by Scott Olson via FT Photo Diary, 11 August 2015
People use umbrellas as they walk in strong wind and heavy rain near West Lake as Typhoon “Soudelor” approaches in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. Typhoon “Soudelor” will land on southeastern China's coastal areas this weekend, according to meteorological departments: photo by ChinaFotoPress, 7 August 2015
Cosplayers pose for a photo during the Gamescom fair in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom convention, Europe’s largest video games trade fair: photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters, 6 August 2015
Great British Beer Festival… Visitors attend the annual Great British
Beer Festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) at Olympia
in London today: photo by Anthony Devlin /PA via FT Photo Diary, 11 August 2016
Performers Fleur Tooth and Florence O’Mahony from the Human Zoo Theatre Company, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, advertise their act “The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon” which is on at the Pleasance Dome, ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: photo by Andrew Milligan/PA via FT Photo Diary, 6 August 2015
Commuters sit in traffic on a bus as a 24 hour tube strike hits the
morning rush hour at Victoria station, central London on Thursday. The
strike began at 6:30 pm (1730 GMT) on August 5 and will run until Friday
morning, causing disruption for millions of commuters and tourists: photo by Leon Neal/AFP, 6 August 2015
A boy takes part in celebrations of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, Nicaragua: photo by Inti Ocon/AFP via FT Photo Diary, 11 August 2015
It's hard not to think immediately of the disfigured Syrian girl with the Minnie Mouse jacket in your last post---her face haunts me---when looking at the girl with made-up disfigurement in this post. We are a strange and often horrible species.
ReplyDeleteHalloween in the middle of summer.
ReplyDeleteTerry, that link was the thread hid inside the seque wrapt around an enigma, here.
Out here in the "civilized" "West", people play at (act out fantasies of) horror, over there in the Land of the Other, it happens for real.
Someone here who every morn before dawn timorously connects two frayed bits of copper wire so as to woo the elusive signal of the one TV channel that can be got sans cable, in order to keep up with the ongoing bad experience of being caught near the end of history in this monstrous country, reports that today there was a bit about a "Cool School" for (rich) kids -- a summertime horror-movie-theme scare camp where the action resembles that at the Gamescom fair in Cologne, Germany, seen here.
Horror movie make-up instruction. Simulated catalcysmic injuries. Bloody wound theatre. Teach your kids how to confront their worst fears. The Unspeakable made SUV-friendly.
Halloween, everybody's favourite national holiday, in the middle of summer.