/lit/ - Literature

>>2318349
Okay, but it doesn't change the fact that they occupy a certain space within society, and that can be exploited. Harold Shipman failed at being a doctor, but that he was not acting as a doctor at the time is no consolation for the people he took advantage of. To borrow from Magritte, it is not if we can describe something as x but if we treat it as x that gives it reality as x, otherwise we are susceptible to the treachery of images.

Pic related, a piece of cheese.