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...varied in years. The worst grasshopper attack in two decades has moved south through the Plains states into Texas, turning millions of acres of green crops into wastelands. In north central Texas, the grasshoppers attacked peach trees so voraciously that little but the exposed pits remain clinging to half-eaten branches...
...there has never been anything like the sheer bulk of visual documentation left as the residue of a popular-photography culture. People and events seem ghostly unless they have been verified by a camera. Wars, elections, riots, disasters, communal ecstasies, the speeches of politicians and their deaths?all are eaten up by the omnivorous lens, as photography (through journalism) defines the terms of our fictitious intimacy with the world...
...pondered the little things that shatter human aspirations. Lee had been given some raspberries by Marylanders on his way to Gettysburg. He had eaten them and had an upset stomach. Had that figured in Lee's problems? "I'll tell you," smiled Carter, "I've been in Mexico when for a couple of days I could not have led anything...
...would lie unburied until the birds or the dogs cleaned her bones. The dogs were also there along the road, slipping back to their wolf kinship, and they were sleek, well-fed. We stopped to take a picture of dogs digging bodies from sand piles; some were half-eaten, and the dogs had already picked clean one visible skull. Half the villages were deserted; some simply abandoned, others already looted. One saw, as one traveled, people chipping bark from trees, with knives, scythes and meat cleavers; you could grind bark and eat it. The trees would then...
...peasants take in destitute children and an eight-year-old boy had been imposed on a peasant family. Then he disappeared. And on investigation, his bones were discovered by the peasant's shack, in a big crock. The question was only whether the boy had been eaten after he died or had been killed to be eaten later...