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nightbird at 02:46pm on 08/09/2009 under fundamentals: issues and texts
nightbird at 02:46pm on 08/09/2009 under fundamentals: issues and textsEnormity doesn't mean really enormous. It means incredibly horrible.
If I was at all together at the moment, I would relate this post to Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag's final book, which examines the act of observing and processing representations of suffering. I am not, in fact, together right now, but it struck me as interesting how this applies to fiction: that if we can't do anything about the enormity, we're more willing to listen and watch.
If I was at all together at the moment, I would relate this post to Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag's final book, which examines the act of observing and processing representations of suffering. I am not, in fact, together right now, but it struck me as interesting how this applies to fiction: that if we can't do anything about the enormity, we're more willing to listen and watch.