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Untitled: photographer unknown, n.d: posted by _elinor, 14 February 2014
There toward the end of that last millennium, with only about sixty more years to go, when things were finally beginning to become just that little bit clearer, it was thought time to provide the child a soft, loyal, companionable stuffed friend.
But by then, it was perhaps too late.
The mask had slipped just enough to reveal the inchoate fear encroaching. What was it, merely a passing shadow, there, behind the child's untrusting eyes. That which had been suspected yet not thus far seen would indeed soon enough become actual, as incipient things have a way of doing.
First it's stuffed bunnies they're giving you. Next it's ice cream and then the nicesurprise -- you're at the hospital, having an operation.
Guetteur: photo by Anne Fleur Sire, 11 November 2012