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Wednesday 12 August 2015

Dog Days in the Human Zoo

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Ferguson, Missouri Marks One-Year Anniversary Of The Death Of Michael Brown...FERGUSON, MO - AUGUST 09:  Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, march along West Florrisant Street in a driving rain on August 9, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri. There are reports that two people were shot when gun fire broke out during protests later in the evening. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on August 9, 2014. His death sparked months of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and drew nationwide focus on police treatment of black offenders.  (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

 Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, march along West Florrisant Street in Ferguson, Missouri. There are reports that two people were shot when gun fire broke out during protests later in the evening: photo by Scott Olson via FT Photo Diary, 10 August 2015 


From afar you can make out the continual murmurings of the white women of Paris
Telling you how they feel about themselves, their dreams, their memories, their emotional extremities
It's a language without borders, it has elation, also it has anguish in it
Occasioned by having to live in a world with white men in it, and other kinds as well
From the beginning, or maybe even farther back than that -- them, them
And worse, and this is not a failure of compassion, it has a poetry
Of convenience, real life among the ultimately unavoidable adjacent physical bodies in the human
Zoo always reduces to a mere matter of conveniences in the end
And this extension of the middle inevitably seems an unbearable postponement of the end
But the conveniences in any case are never in any way simple
Particularly during the dog days, the dog days.
 


Ferguson Tense After Shootout On Anniversary Of Michael Brown's Death...FERGUSON, MO - AUGUST 10:  Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, protest along West Florrisant Street on August 10, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri. Mare than 100 people were arrested today during protests in Ferguson and the St. Louis area. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on August 9, 2014. His death sparked months of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and drew nationwide focus on police treatment of black offenders.  (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)  
Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, protest along West Florrisant Street in Ferguson, Missouri. More than 100 people were arrested today during protests in Ferguson and the St. Louis area: photo by Scott Olson via FT Photo Diary, 11 August 2015

Typhoon "Soudelor" Approaches To Southeast China...HANGZHOU, CHINA - AUGUST 07: (CHINA OUT) Paople use umbrellas as they walk in strong wind and heavy rain near West Lake as Typhoon "Soudelor" approaches on August 7, 2015 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. Typhoon "Soudelor" will land on southeastern China's coastal areas this weekend, according to meteorological departments.  (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

People use umbrellas as they walk in strong wind and heavy rain near West Lake as Typhoon “Soudelor” approaches in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. Typhoon “Soudelor” will land on southeastern China's coastal areas this weekend, according to meteorological departments: photo by ChinaFotoPress, 7 August 2015

Cosplayers pose for a photo during the Gamescom fair in Cologne...Cosplayers pose for a photo during the Gamescom fair in Cologne, Germany August 6, 2015. The Gamescom convention, Europe's largest video games trade fair, runs from August 5 to August 9. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Cosplayers pose for a photo during the Gamescom fair in Cologne, Germany. The Gamescom convention, Europe’s largest video games trade fair: photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters, 6 August 2015

Visitors attend the annual Great British Beer Festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) at Olympia in London
Great British Beer Festival… Visitors attend the annual Great British Beer Festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) at Olympia in London today: photo by Anthony Devlin /PA via FT Photo Diary, 11 August 2016

Performers Fleur Tooth, Florence O'Mahony and Rosalind Hoy from the Human Zoo Theatre Company, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, advertise their act "The Girl Who Fell In love With The Moon" which is on at the  Pleasance Dome, ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Performers Fleur Tooth and Florence O’Mahony from the Human Zoo Theatre Company, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, advertise their act “The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon” which is on at the Pleasance Dome, ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: photo by Andrew Milligan/PA via FT Photo Diary, 6 August 2015

Commuters sit in traffic on a bus

Commuters sit in traffic on a bus as a 24 hour tube strike hits the morning rush hour at Victoria station, central London on Thursday. The strike began at 6:30 pm (1730 GMT) on August 5 and will run until Friday morning, causing disruption for millions of commuters and tourists: photo by Leon Neal/AFP,  6 August 2015

TOPSHOTS A boy takes part in the closing...TOPSHOTS A boy takes part in the closing of the ten-day celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, on August 10, 2015.  AFP PHOTO / INTI OCONInti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images

A boy takes part in celebrations of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, Nicaragua: photo by Inti Ocon/AFP via FT Photo Diary, 11 August 2015

2 comments:

tpw said...

It's hard not to think immediately of the disfigured Syrian girl with the Minnie Mouse jacket in your last post---her face haunts me---when looking at the girl with made-up disfigurement in this post. We are a strange and often horrible species.

TC said...

Halloween in the middle of summer.

Terry, that link was the thread hid inside the seque wrapt around an enigma, here.

Out here in the "civilized" "West", people play at (act out fantasies of) horror, over there in the Land of the Other, it happens for real.

Someone here who every morn before dawn timorously connects two frayed bits of copper wire so as to woo the elusive signal of the one TV channel that can be got sans cable, in order to keep up with the ongoing bad experience of being caught near the end of history in this monstrous country, reports that today there was a bit about a "Cool School" for (rich) kids -- a summertime horror-movie-theme scare camp where the action resembles that at the Gamescom fair in Cologne, Germany, seen here.

Horror movie make-up instruction. Simulated catalcysmic injuries. Bloody wound theatre. Teach your kids how to confront their worst fears. The Unspeakable made SUV-friendly.

Halloween, everybody's favourite national holiday, in the middle of summer.