#squalor

[tilbageidanmark]

Block 23, Belgrade, Serbia

[haikumaker]

Lower East Side in 1981. Apocalyptic Chic.

[tearsofrefugees]

Chicago's migrants face scams, sky-high rents and squalor in search for housing

Their precarious legal status because of changing federal immigration policies and a new Illinois housing law has led to increasing challeng

[evilhorse]

Squalor house ad (circa November 1989)

[skookworks]

When going on a quest, one usually must have company. Certainly one could go questing solo but then there’d be no one else for the reader to become attached to that they would feel sorrow for when that character died horribly.

Now, I don’t know for sure that the little squirrely fellow would have died during the course of the story - the writer hadn’t finished the script - but that was a possibility. Hopefully he would have died heroically, sacrificing himself for the greater good. But maybe not. We will never know.

At least our protagonist is finally wearing pants.

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

— "At home in the barton you said thee' and thou,' And thik oon,' and theäs oon,' and t'other'; but now Your talking quite fits 'ee for high compa-ny!" — "Some polish is gained with one's ruin," said she.

The Ruined Maid • Thomas Hardy

[gregor-samsung]

El Otro Hermano [The lost brother] (Israel Adrián Caetano, 2017)

[tilbageidanmark]

The slums of Glasgow, 1980, by Raymond Depardon.