"And the thing that's so messed up about American culture my sister? An American will spend all their money getting entertained by Hollywood films of catastrophe & disaster & gore. But that stuff happening in real life to real people? All they can do is look away."
—chantalalive.blacksky.app
Periclean Bourgeoisie Syndrome.
“A Crocodile
Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river-dragon stretched along,
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine almandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse; with eyes like beads,
And a small fragment of its speckled egg
Remaining on its harmless, pulpy snout;
A thing to laugh at, as it gaped to catch
The baulking, merry flies. In the iron jaws
Of the great devil-beast, like a pale soul
Fluttering in rocky hell, lightsomely flew
A snowy troculus, with roseate beak
Tearing the hairy leeches from his throat.”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
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