Annotation, Part II

Paige dives into Tom Junod's classic story, The Falling Man:

Overall, the descriptions suggest that you studied this photo almost obsessively. (I know I did; I think we all did.) How many times do you think you looked at it, and HOW did you look at it or come to look at it?

There's the clinical examination—his pants are black, his knee is bent—but the study also required some emotional analysis/pw

[[I LOOKED AT THE PICTURE ABOUT 10 THOUSAND TIMES I GUESS – NO SHIT. AND I LOVED WRITING ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT WAS ALWAYS THERE, ALMOST AS IF IT EXISTED OUT OF TIME. I COULD LAVISH ALMOST UNLIMITED ATTENTION ON IT, AND NOBODY WAS GOING TO STOP ME. THE OPPOSITE OF AN INTERVIEW, IN OTHER WORDS. IT WAS…