Maxioms by Susan Sontag
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe read more
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but read more
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
