Misery

Can one take advantage of misery? Artists and writers have always used it. It’s an entitlement even Elon Musk can’t take away. It’s not only a font but a posture. No matter what happens, it can be written about painted or drawn. Normies don’t have this luxury. Yiyun Lin uses the suicide if her sixteen-year-old son as a subject while others are simply left to grieve. There's a famous shot of Sophia Loren crouched on the ground in the film adaptation of Moravia’s Two Women. Or take Antigone who defies Creon. Sophocles made a tragedy out of a once tragic reality. Sufferers don’t receive royalties for their pain, though they may be rewarded if they turn it into art. It was Anne Frank's father who profited. It’s fun to be an artist since everything is grist for the mill while the rest of the world just has to swallow it.

read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn