Humanity

Still after all these years, humanity cries.

Looking at Winslow Homer paintings online today, I came across this one.

It speaks volumes. Look at the absorption of the boy on the right. Look at the ease of the boy on the left and of the boy on the right, and compare it to the unease of the boy in the middle. Why is the boy in the middle uneasy? Three friends eating watermelon. What is there to be uneasy about? And why he, and not the other two?

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