"This morning, at the breakfast table, a fierce attack from the captured woman. I am a shit, a vain preener, a watcher of television, a blatherer, a creephead, a monstrous coward who preys upon etc. etc. etc. and is not man enough to etc. etc. etc. Also I drink too much. This is all absolutely true. I have often thought the same things myself, especially, for some reason, upon awakening. I have a little more Canadian bacon. “And a skulker,” she says with relish. “One who—” I fix her in the viewfinder of my Pentax and shoot a whole new series, Fierce. The trouble with capturing one is that the original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon."
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