No-one thinks Picasso’s Guernica is evil, even though the event it depicts is one of the most infamous in human history. Children’s cartoons routi...nely portray sectarian violence as a normal and healthy solution to social problems, usually implicitly justifying it by having the ‘bad guys’ force it on the ‘good guys’ as a ‘last resort’. Series like Breaking Bad and Rick and Morty follow morally bankrupt characters and glory in their success. Here, rooting for the bad guy is part of the fun.But. Nimble fingers went to work at the laces, pulling the slim leather strands taught through the rusted eyelets, evenly crossing them over one another. When he’d uprighted himself, he paused at the mirror again to draw in the sight of a finished product, imperfect, but fortified by ceaseless preparation and consummated in it’s own resolution. And the needling sensation of excitement came over him then, warming his chest in the chill of the cool morning and radiating through his body. The feeling. A slow dance in a darkened room, the glittering ball casting a thousand shimmering lights as it twirled ever so slowly overhead. It was as if time had regressed and we were dancing in the 1940’s. My right hand holding her left, at shoulder height, my left upon her waist, her upon my arm, our feet shuffling on the floor as we continued to chat while we danced. As a measure of compliment I commented on her wonderful muscle tone, my hand upon the small of her back. She told me she rode her. Being 25 and the youngest member of the group, Johnny was very anxious about how the afternoon would go. My apartment was a short 5 minute stroll from the pub. On arrival at my pad, we would strip down to our speedos as the sun was shining and the boys were keen for a splash around in the pool in my apartment complex. Some guys had their speedos on already under their shorts ... some of the other guys changed in to them in my apartment ... just about all the guys looked gym-toned to various.