The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday August 9th, 2023
Problems of Underestimation by Jan Sand
When I was a kid, which was quite a few years ago, I visited a dentist quite often. In those days children were considered not quite up to basic adult standards. The dental drill, commensurate with today’s high-speed quality rumbled slowly towards the tooth nerve uncooled by water jets and exquisitely tortured the unanaesthesized victim’s nerve system. Children screamed to no effect and were considered an unavoidable (but financially rewarding) nuisance by the dentist who became sadistic in his efforts to get his job done, whatever the brutality involved.
It was a time when children and fish, amongst others, were considered insensitive to pain. Lacking the adequate vocabulary to thoroughly disparage their torturers, babies were routinely operated upon without painkillers and fish, of course, who never felt the hooks, were equally inarticulate. Currently children have been discovered to be somewhat more sensitive and fish have yet to be written into an amendment to the constitution in the matter of brutality, whatever the sophistication of their nervous systems.
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Incandescence All On #poem by Saloni Kaul
“Strolling our urban galleries I often wonder
Do scenes, pictures, art capture the essence of life in transience
And love though out of the frame somewhere torn asunder,
Can that live on in permanence in this evanescent world of strife?”
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Screws & Chips #66 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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