“February, month of despair, with a skewered heart in the centre.”
— Morning in the Burned House; ‘February’ by Margaret Atwood

Alfred Statler, New York City, 1950

Prague, by Martin Froyda

Franz K. Opitz, Paris Café, 1959

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.
- Martha Nussbaum, From Disgust to Humanity

“There are people who want to be seen in no other way than shining through others. There is a great deal of prudence in that.”
—Daybreak, §421 (edited).

Josef Pelech The Path 1930 - 1940

Rozz Williams, Skillful Manipulation