Yet art which bludgeons the senses ends up by numbing, and thus paves the way to the snuff movie and the reduction of art to sado-masochistic voyeurism.
There had been a turn-out of sawyers, and Garland and three others, who were working there as knobsticks, were returning to Manchester (it being Saturday evening), when about half a mile from the new church, four men rushed from behind a cart going the opposite way, and which had concealed them, and attacked Garland and the others with bludgeons and rods of iron.