It is odd how when seeing antique surgeon's instruments, I wince at the thought of having those instruments used on them, while not feeling the same sense of imagined pain at being blasted by an antique rifle, or slashed with an antique sword.
Perhaps because I can more easily imagine myself being operated on than being shot or stabbed.
@2 word. Maybe it's the immediacy. Living in a rich and mostly peaceful country, you don't think that rifle will be used on you. But when you see the scalpel, you know it's "batter up".
Perhaps because I can more easily imagine myself being operated on than being shot or stabbed.