The Uses of Orphans

[acsillag]

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-uses-of-orphans/

[teddyh]

Note: this article is about the uses of actual orphans as subjects in fictional literature.

I thought that this would be about typographical orphans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans) or possibly orphan works (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works), but no such luck.

[mangeletti]

What on Earth is happening in the hand picture at the top?