Life — May 18, 1911 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 971 This page contains three distinct pieces of satire: 1. **"People I Would Rather Not Know"** — A portrait sketch labeled "A. Bloodgood Damper" accompanies text expressing the author's desire to avoid meeting Bernard Shaw, whose prolific writings have made him thoroughly disliked. The piece also mentions James Gordon Bennett, criticizing his habit of discharging employees. 2. **"Peacocksis"** — A poem mocking fashionable Sunday church attendance, satirizing wealthy women who parade in expensive carriages and French fashions while claiming religious devotion. 3. **Cartoon illustrations** show conversational scenes — one depicting a dog discussing immortality, another showing what appears to be a daring criminal escape ("A Daring Hold-Up"). The page satirizes social pretension, literary celebrities, and fashionable hypocrisy typical of Life's editorial stance.