COMMENT: Navalny was box-office for a fortnight but a decade of obscurity beckons
In WH Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts' he writes about the banality of suffering, how it "takes place/ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along." The poem was inspired by Bruegel's painting "Fall of Icarus" in which the mythical figure plummets to his death while the ploughman, the fisherman and the goatherd carry on about their daily chores, either ignorant or unmoved.
