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While you enjoy listening to the conversations about comics and beauty, please refer to these images.
First, I present to you Julian's images for "Musee des Beaux Arts" in Poems To See By.
Then, click the link below to participate in our discussion of "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden.
Regarding the problem of indifference of spectators to scenes of great suffering or crime, I wonder if the issue is not so much that people are indifferent to the suffering, but rather that they are too weak to take in what is happening. If they were to recognize it, they would be unable to go on with the small necessary tasks, selling their grain or taking their kids to school. So they make the half-conscious decision to ignore it. There is a scene in Tolstoy's War and Peace in the long retreat when one of the main characters knows that someone very important and dear to him is being put to death in the distance, but instead of noticing the…