Gettysburg, photograph by Timothy H. O’Sullivan, July 1863. An excerpt from Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War, published, 1865-66: Such a picture conveys a useful moral: It shows the blank horror and reality of war, in opposition to its pageantry. Here are the dreadful details! Let them aid in preventing such another calamity [...]
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Randomness: Veracity, Half-Truths, Being Human…
What if you died knowing that people were gonna talk about you after you’re dead. And you were able, when dead, to come back invisible and see how people had fucked up all the details, gotten all the people mixed up, making you look better, more adjusted and with better manners. Would you be glad [...]
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