Not just for the birds
"Maybe we fear that the work we depend on images to do for us -- the work of immobilizing, and therefore making tolerable -- will be undone if we throw the image back into the flow of time." -- T.J. Clark, The Sight of Death (8) "I think we hide, necessarily, from an understanding of …
https://youtu.be/vZ7oYCx6tBw Avaunt, away! the cruel sway, / Tyrannic man's dominion; / The sportsman's joy, the murd'ring cry / the flutt'ring, gory pinion! --Robert Burns, "Song Composed in August" (1786) If you love birds but love to shoot them, and love the world and some of its people, too, and not much of anything makes sense …