“Do you not feel what has happened?”
#Seeing versus looking versus knowing versus believing versus seeing in The Terror. #The evidence of Sir John’s death is immediately visual but to James it is something to be sensed experienced and inhabited. #Sir John’s body disappears and they hide away his leg in a box and bury it… #… the last time James mentions Sir John directly is in opening another box the costume trunk. #The last gasp of the fantasy Sir John constructed for them- of an adventure for Queen and country- of a safe return home. (via rhavewellyarnbag)