it's solstice today - skullfest 2006 - Year 5, Day 1 today. wow.
the title is a link to my favorite painting of all time, and especially for today. it's by ilya repin, a russian cat who, with this painting, put the cap on the ideological russian movement in russian painting. but i don't care about that. what i care about is that i'm teaching a theory of mind lecture this summer, and if i had an hour and 50 powerpoint slides to explain to you the subtleties of theory of mind---your ability to imagine what's going on in my head---i could not do better than to give you 5 minutes alone with this painting. it's stunning. it's a russian populist dude, i forget his name, who the czar's soldiers took away in the pogroms 8 years ago. everyone thinks he's dead, and now he just walks into his house; even little girl who is too young to remember really; everyone except the boy, with his gleeful, vindictive grin. told you so.
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