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Thursday, May 22, 2014

I see (expression) of dead people ...

I have been thinking that literature or art could be a route into a more persistent presence of the dead. Mary Favret, a literature scholar at Indiana, gave a brilliant paper at Emory last year on soldiers and suicide. She explored the topic through close analysis of 18th and 19th C paintings, and suggested that "if something cannot be articulated in language, it might nonetheless be made visible." -- Mary L. Dudziak
The question then becomes "will those who see, perceive?" [that's me, no extra charge]

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