Eclipse

Oct. 11th, 2006 12:13 am
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I have no right to be unhappy right now. My lj should be even more full of twittering nonsense than usual, only I found this. The Times is doing a series of sunday features on great photographs. They included this one:



A gentleman called Kevin Carter took it, and I think won some mammoth award for it. The little girl is dying of hunger. Kevin spent 20 minutes waiting for the vulture to spread its wings for an appropriate shot. Apparently he confided to friends afterwards that he wished he had intervened and saved the girl. Until I read that, it never occurred to me that he hadn't.

He committed suicide months later. Maybe he did help her and never told anyone. Yes, that's a good story, humane, plausible, what any normal human being would do.

I don't believe it.

In my lack of faith, I have no idea if I'm judging his darkness or mine.

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