21 February 2003

THE WAY THINGS ARE   Think of it this way: that not even dust remains of what once might have been. You know the properties of hope, of dreams, of rumours: how rich the imagined landscape, how true that stranger’s voice. And then a sighting here and there of those enchanters in their motley, dancing like dervishes and singing in the old tongue? Maybe.  But now consider this: the light that shivers in my brandy glass, the blue fumes from my cigarette, are of the real world. Watch them with me now, just the two of us, and know from these my words and this the sound of my voice, the way things are. 4:01:11 PM    comment [] Art Jacobson (Ojo Caliente) points out that the reasonable probability is that Sadam may be drawing quite spurious comfort from the worldwide resistance to an invasion of Iraq. Clearly Bush & Blair & their acolytes are able to sing undistracted from a completely different hymnbook to the rest of the world, a relatively free media that is almost universally anti-war notwithstanding. Hardly likely, then, that Sadam Hussein in his Baghdad fuhrerbunker has a notion as to the real motives & drives behind this extraordinary, almost unprecedented, tidal wave of opposition to war.  So there's something in Art's suggestion that we should be picketing Iraq's embassies around the world lest there should be any serious misunderstanding about our view of savage dictatorship.  What horrifies us most about our leaders' unaccountability, surely, is that thin, hard seam of Sadam-esque oligarchy that has blinded & deafened those leaders to our collective voice. 3:56:58 PM    comment []   12:42:54 AM    comment []

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