the new emotional blackmailer's handbook

Some DRAWN AND PAINTED ALLEGORIES ... you could argue that every painting includes an element of allegory by its very EXISTING AT THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE IMAGINED, and by the possibility that it could be reduced by a philosopher or a critic to being just a series of statements inside ( or outside ) a FRAMEWORK OF IDEAS OR CONCEPTS ... but if a painting's content extends beyond that of a fleeting moment in existence, then it will accumulate layers of meaning each time someone responds to it

pieter bruegel's painting of "the blind leading the blind"  ... coupled with  ...  john singer sargent's "gassed...