“To have great pain is to have certainty,” Elaine Scarry wrote in her classic 1985 treatise “The Body in Pain. “To hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”
I want to write so that the reader has no doubt of the pain of the other
This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.
At the Georgia O’Keefe museum in Santa Fe, this is the painting you see immediately after reading the placard explaining that she vehemently disagreed with anyone who said her works were about sexuality: