"Delphic Seaport boomed all summer long with an amusement park, masquerades, fortune-tellingbooths, gypsy musicians, and a freak show. I could never be sure if the human deformities were real or an illusion"
...wow.
So let me get this straight. Nora has been to the freak show often enough so that she can say "she could never be sure " if the deformities were real or not.
She didn't just go once because of a dare or peer pressure or something. Oh, no. She went MULTIPLE TIMES.
You don't do that unless you find it ENTERTAINING.
Nora finds looking at people's disfigurements and deformities entertaining. And her only concern is whether or not the deformities are real.
Not "I wondered how these people managed."
Not "I felt sorry for these people, and wondered why they were in a terrible job like this in this day and age."
Not "I felt ashamed of myself for going to the freak show, because I knew damned well that I'd hate it if someone was paying to look at me because my body was malfunctioning."
No. Her only concern is whether or not what she's looking at is real. There's no compassion, no responsibility, no guilt, and no awareness that she is, in fact, exploiting people and treating them like things.
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Date: 2011-06-24 05:31 am (UTC)...wow.
So let me get this straight. Nora has been to the freak show often enough so that she can say "she could never be sure " if the deformities were real or not.
She didn't just go once because of a dare or peer pressure or something. Oh, no. She went MULTIPLE TIMES.
You don't do that unless you find it ENTERTAINING.
Nora finds looking at people's disfigurements and deformities entertaining. And her only concern is whether or not the deformities are real.
Not "I wondered how these people managed."
Not "I felt sorry for these people, and wondered why they were in a terrible job like this in this day and age."
Not "I felt ashamed of myself for going to the freak show, because I knew damned well that I'd hate it if someone was paying to look at me because my body was malfunctioning."
No. Her only concern is whether or not what she's looking at is real. There's no compassion, no responsibility, no guilt, and no awareness that she is, in fact, exploiting people and treating them like things.
Foul little coprolith.
Our heroine, ladies and gentlemen.