On a promotional photograph of Donald Sutherland in "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!"

Pater familias, as he leans in easy, an easy family snapshot, wishing he were headless, wishing he weren't a revolutionary, wishing his left hand was a dagger. Donald Sutherland in lace, in a kind of triangle within a triangle, on its end, not the long but the point. That point a wish for a dagger. Donald Sutherland looks forward to his son, a revolutionary moving in the space of a day, a limit less with clear eyes than clouded, feeling only the press of the present.