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...role and inner imagination whose verbal maps were drawn by Kubin's Middle European contemporary, Franz Kafka. The Guilt, 1902, is quintessential Kubin: a starveling figure immersed to his knees in water, bent double under the weight of a fat, disaffected-looking seal-slimy, absurd and immovable. The beast is not even malevolent enough to make his victim look brave. It was with such images that alienation became identifiable as a state of art and its rule over the European imagination began...
Till waves wash up the dead beast...
...since he is oppressed in his race and because of it, it is first of his race that it is necessary for him to take conscience. He must compel those who, during the centuries, vainly attempted, because he was African, to reduce him to the status of a beast to recognize him as a man." For him there can be neither escape, dissembling, nor crossing the line. "A ew, white among white men, can deny that he is a Jew, can declare himself a man among men. The African cannot deny that he is African, nor claim for himself this...
...pompous. It's true. O miserable, miserable beast! I HATE myself!" I stamped my foot...
...Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a snowmobiling club planned a fox hunt in which the winner would get to crush the panting beast under his treads (the event was squashed by public outrage). Other drivers play a game called "spooking." The object is to chase a terrified deer (or coyote, wolf or moose) until it drops. Debilitated by winter cold, the animal often dies of exhaustion or pneumonia...