gravy trains and fierce loyalties

Nov 13, 2008 01:29

An azimuthal equidistant projection, centered at the North Pole, between two olive branches. That is the flag of the UN. What I wonder though is: who raises all the other flags every morning. Each time I drive past the complex, I can't decide if each nation has someone in charge of this daily ceremony, or if an anonymous team of blue collars is ( Read more... )

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lepidoptery November 13 2008, 17:31:31 UTC
i fear that that is the book you lost. isn't it? I like those lines very much, especially, "Modernity knows the strut and the fret but not the hour." Poetry.

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