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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
The Cost of War. David Charter of the Times Online reports on George Allison being hired to construct a $200,000 set for General Tommy Franks to hold briefings on during the war that is still officially not imminent. According to the article, the shipping alone cost $47,000. Inside, some other costs associated with war. [kuro5hin.org]
And we're laying off schoolteachers in Oakland.
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"Ho, talk save us!". On this day in 1923, James Joyce wrote to his patron, Harriet Weaver, that he had just begun "Work in Progress," the book which would become Finnegans Wake sixteen years later:
"Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk. Ho! Are you not gone ahome? What Thom Malone? Can't hear with bawk of bats, all thim liffeying waters of. Ho, talk save us! My foos won't moos. I feel as old as yonder elm. A tale told of Shaun or Shem? All Livia's daughter-sons. Dark hawks hear us. Night! Night! My ho head halls. I feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. Beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night!" Today in Literature
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Soon it Won't be Funny. But while we can still joke, let's have another round of Name That War!
Some of the ones I've heard and liked are "Operation Deserter Storm," "Dubya Dubya III," "Let's Roll Again," ... [Eschaton]
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