Speech Falls Silent
"minutiae" by Nathan Abels (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Pierre-Narcisse Guerin, The Return of Marcus Sextus , Oil on canvas, 217 x 243 cm, 1799 ( source ) "The characters in a tragedy, the places; the air one breathes-these are sometimes more fascinating than the tragedy itself, the moments preceding tragedy and those that follow it, when the action is firm and speech falls silent." - Michelangelo Antonioni


