Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Pierre Auguste Renoir Sleeping Bather painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Sleeping Bather paintingPierre Auguste Renoir Seating Girl paintingPierre Auguste Renoir By the Water painting
Objectively," he said, with a small self--deprecating smile, "what has happened here? A: Wrongful arrest, intimidation, violence. Two: Illegal detention, unknown medical experimentation in hospital," -- murmurs of assent here, as memories of intra-vaginal inspections, Depo-Provera scandals, unauthorized post-partum sterilizations, and, further back, the knowledge of Third World drug-dumping arose in every person present to give substance to the speaker's insinuations, -- because what you believe depends on what you've seen, -- not only what is visible, but what you are prepared to look in the face, -- and anyhow, something had to explain horns and hoofs; in those policed medical wards, anything could happen -- "And thirdly," Jumpy continued, "psychological breakdown, loss of sense of self, inability to cope. We've seen it all before."
Nobody argued, not even Hind; there were some truths from which it was impossible to dissent. "Ideologically," Jumpy said, "I refuse to accept

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