Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
[Susan Sontag]

“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax.”

DO YOU REVERSE?

[with thanks to Amber Noel; O’Connor quote from Conversations with Flannery O’Connor, Rosemary M. Magee, p. 38]