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[ipsenaut]

"The word "terrorism" first appeared in France (terrorisme) in 1795."
--The Department of Homeland Security's Ready Kids: Know The Facts page.

I have been watching an unseemly amount of movies lately. I am kicking Netflix's ass. This weekend alone I've seen eXistenZ, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and The Truman Show.In that pleasant post-movie haze, I

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[adrastea_star]

I find it kind of hilarious and kind of sad that they can instruct kids on all kinds of weather phenomena, but the best they can do for terrorism is "talk to your parents or teachers about this type of emergency." If I was a parent going to that site, that's the one thing I'd probably want some help on. I can tell my kids what a goddamn tornado looks like. What are we paying them for, really?

Speaking of Klimt, have you read a book called I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young-ha Kim? I talked a bit about it in my journal over the summer 1) because it has the best cover art probably ever, 2) because the translator is a friend of mine, and 3) because it was easily the creepiest, most haunting book I read over the course of 2007. I think you'd probably like it.

[ipsenaut]

Oh, gravy. I forget sometimes that I pay taxes, and as such, have a right to be slightly nauseated by this manner of uselessness.

Also, I think the real emergency is youth ignorance of etymology, but the DHS is all over that issue. What more could one ask?

Oh. Right.

That book does seem intriguing, and as luck would have it, the library down the road has a copy or two waiting to be checked out. Thank you for the recommendation.

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[ipsenaut]

I got a copy of the book, which is rather slim and so should help me slip back into the realm of fiction.

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[adrastea_star]

Goddamn that was fast. Saw your HBC post about it just now, glad you enjoyed it. It was viscerally disturbing to me and made my skin crawl and my brain cringe. I had to read it twice.

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[ipsenaut]

That was fast, courtesy the Queens Public Library, and me being within 15 minutes of 5 branches.

Also, thanks again for the recommendation. I didn't realize it'd been reviewed and tried not to create superlative expectations, but it really was sparse and interesting. I'm a little torn-- it seems like the narrator could be used so much more, and there could be so much more to the novel, but Kim times things perfectly and I admit that any more would probably be excessive. Chalk it up to an autumn of watching Dexter.