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WARNING: NSFL. Do not keep reading if you're not prepared to hear something truly horrible. Here's a quote from the book: "We had an inmate in custody who had
by exolymph 6y ago
WARNING: NSFL. Do not keep reading if you're not prepared to hear something truly horrible.
Here's a quote from the book: "We had an inmate in custody who had cut open a baby with a tin can lid and raped the wound. If someone can do that, do you think he will hesitate at all before gouging your eye out or biting off a finger?"
- papeda 6y agoI wish this comment had a NSFL tag at the beginning. I did not want to read that, and it comes out of nowhere relative to its parent comment. More generally, I think there's a difference between "meditation on brutality" and "misery porn", and that the latter sometimes gets dressed up as the former.
- exolymph 6y agoFair enough, I'll add a warning. Edit: I wanted to demonstrate the stupidity of this question: "How is Meditations on Violence supposed to convey the brutality of life as well as the other titles?" The quote is not representative of the general tenor of the book, but it is representative of why that question is dumb.