Mutual Addiction

on this day in 1953 shirley jackson sent this to an unhappy reader

.world's largest excavator- nay, world's largest vehicle- the bagger 288

peer-reviewed tags by @theradioghost !!! that is so cool

I will make a beautiful life for myself no matter how long it takes. I will I will I will

John Singer Sargent, ‘Gassed’ and ‘Six Studies for Gassed’ (1918)

In Gassed there is little suffering. Or rather, what suffering there is is outweighed by the painting’s compassion. In spite of the vomiting figure the scene has almost nothing in common with Owen’s vision of the gas victim whose blood comes ‘gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs’. What Sargent has depicted, instead, is the solace of the blind: the comfort of putting your trust in someone, of being safely led.