He stares at the same dingy wall without blinking. He does not eat, he does not sleep, he does not tire; Cliff Blair is completely frozen in a cryogenic tube except, for some unforeseen reason, his conscious mind is awake and alert. Maybe months, or maybe years, have passed since it all started, but one thing is certain, he can only see the same fox hunting painting that hangs motionless before him. What happens to a mind that is detached from all other sensory input besides the same static visual image, he wonders. Strange thoughts are all he has left and he is more fearful of what will happen when they run out.
He stares at the same dingy wall without blinking. He does not eat, he does not sleep, he does not tire; Cliff Blair is completely frozen in a cryogenic tube except, for some unforeseen reason, his conscious mind is awake and alert. Maybe months, or maybe years, have passed since it all started, but one thing is certain, he can only see the same fox hunting painting that hangs motionless before him. What happens to a mind that is detached from all other sensory input besides the same static visual image, he wonders. Strange thoughts are all he has left and he is more fearful of what will happen when they run out.
He decided to slow down, for he didn't want to attract attention at such a crucial time in his life (especially with a dismembered corpse in the back of the vehicle), and he knew that most serial...
Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, cultural critic Rosemarie Garland-Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare...
What is reality? What is absurd? What is insanity? What is normal? The Stare opens the door to question our beliefs as reality starts to border on the absurd from page one and accepted insanity...
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