The convention (crossbred from one breathless post-Victorian enthusiasm for secret knowledge with another, no more rigorous, for cool toys) that photographs capture hiddens our eyes don’t see.
Not just the minutiae of murders, but more things than are dreamt of, &c.
Take a picture of the sun with a digital camera, especially a cheap one.
It’s not that much of a surprise.
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‘A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicize such things.’
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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