The longer you live the more surprises you´ll get as regards to people, ideas and objects. Literature is full of incredible stories of survival, faith, hope, success, forgiveness,kindness and shocking cruelty all over the world.
Let´s look at some of these news stories:
FIREFIGHTERS MISTAKENLY PUMP JET FUEL ON FIRE INSTEAD OF WATER
MISSING WOMAN UNWITTINGLY JOINS SEARCH PARTY LOOKING FOR HERSELF
WOMAN,46, BECOMES A MOTHER AND A GRANDMOTHER IN THE SAME WEEK
SCREENING OF NOAH CANCELLED AFTER THEATRE FLOODS
FEMALE-NAMED HURRICANES KILL MORE THAN MALE HURRICANES AS PEOPLE DON´T RESPECT THEM
DISABLED BOY RECORDS BULLIES TORMENTING HIM. POLICE CHARGE HIM WITH ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING
CHINESE ZOO UNDER FIRE FOR DISGUISING HAIRY DOG AS LION
MAN GOOGLES HIMSELF.FINDS HE IS MOST WANTED AND SURRENDERS.
WOMAN INADVERTENTLY BECOMES 87TH BEST GLASGOW ATTRACTION AFTER TRIP ADVISOR MISTAKE,
DETROIT GOES"MURDER FREE" FOR 36 HOURS
DISGUSTED CENTRAL PARK MUGGER REJECTS VICTIM´S FLIP PHONE.
TRUCK CRASHES, SPILLS PENGUINS
MISTAKENLY BELIEVING ONE OF THEM TO BE GAY, TWO HOMOPHOBES ATTACK EACH OTHER.
BEFORE MATING, THE FEMALE GIRAFFE WILL FIRST URINATE IN THE MALE´S MOUTH.
"I MARRIED MY CAT AND IT´S PURR-FECT"
A TIGER BEFRIENDS A GOAT
A TAPEWORM IS FOUND INSIDE A WOMAN´S BRAIN
SHE FOUND HER HUSBAND´S INFIDELITY THROUGH FACEBOOK
MY FAVOURITE PAINTERS ARE ALBERTO BURRI AND EDWARD BURRA
MY FAVOURITE AUTHORS ARE JOAN MIRÓ AND GABRIEL MIRÓ or
JUAN GRIS AND A. JEAN GROSS
MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE: A BANDAGE/A pair of scissors WAS LEFT INSIDE A GIRL´S WOMB AFTER DELIVERY. (Check ten horrible cases of medical malpractice)
There is enough misery in the world, isn´t there? Reality is more sickening, much more shocking .There is plenty of literature on misery memoirs. Just to recall a few:
DAVE PELZER´S A CHILD CALLED IT HAS SOMEONE BEING FORCED NAKED ONTO A HOT STOVE
CONSTANCE BRISCOE´S UGLY HAS THE MAIN CHARACTER BLEACH-SWALLOWING
ARTHUR´S KOESTLER´S DARKNESS AT NOON REFLECTS THE DYNAMICS OF TORTURE AND PRISONER ABUSE.
Just to finish off on a bitter note I´m going to reflect in words the cruelty and brutality of war, the shocking effects of war, any war which opens up a catalogue of human depravation. The end justifies the means and All is fair in love and war so there we are..any type of behaviour can be acceptable to get what you want and demoralise the enemy.....
Horrifying scenes of violence can be seen in many modern films from Stanley Kubrick to Quentin Tarantino, M. Haneke, Gaspar Noe... The following have not been gleaned from a CIA torture manual or from the Inquisition but from a history book depicting the emotional devastation of the Spanish peninsular war fought between 1808-1814, The peninsular war by Charles Esdaile The repetition of mistakes is the essential characteristic of any war. They are too dreadful to relate in more detail, which would render this as pornographic.
CIVILIAN BOMBING
Intentionally wounding instead of killing
Backstabbing
Men stoned to death
" starved to death
" burned to death
" boiled in oil
" sawn in half
" buried up to their necks in the ground and left to die of thirst
" had their testicles cut off and put into their mouths
" used the coffins as wood to warm themselves up, throwing away the skeletons
" saw their wives and daughters raped by the enemy
" were fed rotten food.
" were hacked to pieces alive starting with fingers and toes
" were hacked to pieces alive starting with fingers and toes
Emaciated dogs were eating the corpses of the entire population which had been massacred
Girls had their earrings plucked.
At Fontaneira a woman caught in the streets had her breasts cut off and a heavily pregnant woman was torn open to have her unborn child killed and she herself died bleeding in agony.
Prisoners were forced to dig the hole in which they were to be buried themselves.
Prisoners were forced to dig the hole in which they were to be buried themselves.
These chapters of the utmost horror and horrid excesses of humankind are
unspeakable acts committed by ordinary people...
unspeakable acts committed by ordinary people...
How are we ever going to redeem ourselves?
Where are our survival skills and resilience?
Are these our universal wounds or our original sins?
Is it better forgetfulness or the clear remembrance of horrors?
Remember animals are never half as cruel as human beings.
As human beings do we accept defeat and assume other people´s pains?
Where are our survival skills and resilience?
Are these our universal wounds or our original sins?
Is it better forgetfulness or the clear remembrance of horrors?
Remember animals are never half as cruel as human beings.
As human beings do we accept defeat and assume other people´s pains?
