The whites of their eyes were dark gray.
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Creepy! Are you creeped out yet? Like Merle, you should be but I'm not sure why. Merle went from watching a miracle appear before his eyes to suddenly feeling weirded out by the whole thing. I guess it's a human reaction to witnessing the unknowable? Is this a commentary on scientific ignorance? How everything which you've never witnessed prior, or know nothing about, can seem so mysterious as to be proof of God or proof of ultimate Evil? Has Merle shifted from the belief that he was witnessing a miracle to now witnessing black magic?
Also, is this dramatic irony? We know he's looking at a negative but Merle would have no reason to know or believe or even understand how film development works. Common sense, that affliction of the ignorant and stupid which they believe to be the mightiest power of all minds, would simply think that a developed photo would come out looking exactly like the object the camera took a snapshot of. Why would the light and shadow be inverted? But scientific knowledge is complicated, you Common Sense worshiping buffoons! It's also scary, I guess, which is why we have so many movies like The Gods Must Be Crazy where "primitive" people react to modern technology or scientific experiments as if they're the most intense magic they've ever witnessed.
Oh! Also a negative would be like viewing the evil, dark side of existence! So that's got to be pretty creepy for Merle too.
I'm not happy about this entry. You probably shouldn't read it. I think I might be sick.
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