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23 June 2003



Now Reading: Regarding the Pain of Others #16 Compassion

Monday, 23 June 2003 12:05 P GMT-07
  “Compassion is an unstable emotion.  It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” (Sontag, p. 101)  Art can be, among other things, compassionate action.  Is it not an act of compassion to look without blinking at
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Now Reading: Regarding the Pain of Others #15 Crewdson

Monday, 23 June 2003 12:04 P GMT-07
  "Dream House" by Gregory Crewdson “Whereever people feel safe…they will be indifferent.”  Sontag, p. 100 I reiterate Ortega’s remarks I referenced in my <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smartta
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