Ouch....having a knife between your legs really hurts....I remember it well.
/jim
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 1:50 AM
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Subject: [OM] On Photography
Googling, I came across this gem on photography:
"Like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive.
However, despite the extravagances of ordinary language and advertising,
they are not lethal. In the hyperbole that markets cars like guns, there is
at least this much truth: except in wartime, cars kill more people than guns
do. The camera/gun does not kill, so the ominous metaphor seems to be all
bluff - like a man's fantasy of having a gun, knife, or tool between his
legs."
(from Susan Sontag On Photography, 1977)
Rich
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