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While at the Louvre I got to see The Raft Of The Medusa, an incredible painting depicting a non-fictional brutal story of death and suffering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_M%C3%A9duse_(1810)#Course_to_Senegal
I first learned of the story and painting from the #metal #doom band Ahab. Their album "The Divinity Of Oceans" has the song "Yet Another Raft Of The Medusa (Pollard's Weakness)". It does great justice capturing the despair, loneliness, and horror of this event.
