>>They're rioting in Africa.
>>They're starving in Spain.
>>There's hurricanes in Florida
>>and Texas needs rain.
>>The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
>>The French hate the Germans.
>>The Germans hate the Poles.
>>Italians hate Yugoslavs.
>>South Africans hate the Dutch
>>and I don't like anybody very much!
>>
>>But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
>>for man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
>>And we know for certain
>>that some lovely day
>>someone will set the spark off
>>and we will all be blown away.
>>
>>They're rioting in Africa.
>>There's strife in Iran.
>>What nature doesn't do to us
>>will be done by our fellow man.
>
>Boy, I started reading that and immediately, I was transported to one series of Madeleine L'Engle's novels (the Austins books). She has a character who is essentially a "poor little rich boy" who likes to quote that.
>
>Tamar
Madeleine indeed <bg> Odd that in this case it was the object rather than the catalyst.
Don't know those books but will look them up.
Just started reading something really odd - A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Roumania-Paul-Park/dp/0765310961You might really like it (based on what amazon says about l'Engle.)
Genuinely strange. Reminds me of Tim Powers who is big-time strange
http://www.amazon.com/Declare-Tim-Powers/dp/0380798360/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247070810&sr=1-2
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
