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“ All these mass manufactured fates are haunted by a thousand dreams of escape ”
Simone de Beauvoir, America day by day
Two photographers take the same photograph… Time’s Lightbox has a feature of side-by-side comparisons of two different photographer’s shots of the same event. Above, on the left, John Moore of Getty’s shot of Libyan freedom fighters shooting a rocket at Gaddhafi’s army this past March is put next to the one of essentially the same moment by Yuri Kozyrev (NOOR for Time).
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(Source: TIME)
“ Personality is much more than autobiographical detail, it’s our way of processing the world, our way of being, and it cannot be artificially removed from our activities; it is our way of being active. Eliot may have been ruthlessly impersonal in his writing in the superficial sense (if by that we mean he did not reveal personal details, such as the tricky fact that he had committed his wife to an asylum), but never was a man’s work more inflected with his character, with his beliefs about the nature of the world. As for that element of his work that he puts forward as a model of his impersonality - a devotion to tradition - such devotion is the very definition of personality in writing. The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him. ”
Zadie Smith, in her essay, “Fail better” (She’s responding to T.S. Eliot’s essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”)
Still the U.S. will not recognize what happened in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge as genocide: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2732.htm.