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Up late writing a paper on the former Yugoslavia...
I flew past naive optimism, over suppressed stress and choosy word-selection, trudged through the bitter, tired period, and have now found myself with a second wind, calmly and effectively reading, writing, quoting, citing...
This sure is the nice part. I'll be a zombie tomorrow, though.
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People the world over are all going crazy. Something's in the air. An old friend of mine went off the deep end some time ago, and now, as he works his way back out, he sends me pictures of his art, and says the world is ending in eight years.
The professor that I'm writing this paper for was recently reprimanded for holding a knife to the throat of a girl in his introduction class. Sparkling green idealism, she said there should be no veteran's day; it just glorifies the violence. Kanner fought in several wars, and behind his professor's glasses you can see his regard is hardened, lost somewhere on a field among frightened boys and fine-tuned war machines.
"The only reason you're not afraid," he told her, "is that you think someone else will use force to save you."
Word came from Iraq today, a woman my mom met there has been executed. Thirty years spent smuggling medicine and toys to children, and she was abducted, and held for a ransom which never came.
*****
I will never grasp the world or existence. Awake and dreaming.
I flew past naive optimism, over suppressed stress and choosy word-selection, trudged through the bitter, tired period, and have now found myself with a second wind, calmly and effectively reading, writing, quoting, citing...
This sure is the nice part. I'll be a zombie tomorrow, though.
*****
People the world over are all going crazy. Something's in the air. An old friend of mine went off the deep end some time ago, and now, as he works his way back out, he sends me pictures of his art, and says the world is ending in eight years.
The professor that I'm writing this paper for was recently reprimanded for holding a knife to the throat of a girl in his introduction class. Sparkling green idealism, she said there should be no veteran's day; it just glorifies the violence. Kanner fought in several wars, and behind his professor's glasses you can see his regard is hardened, lost somewhere on a field among frightened boys and fine-tuned war machines.
"The only reason you're not afraid," he told her, "is that you think someone else will use force to save you."
Word came from Iraq today, a woman my mom met there has been executed. Thirty years spent smuggling medicine and toys to children, and she was abducted, and held for a ransom which never came.
*****
I will never grasp the world or existence. Awake and dreaming.